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•Monday, December 29, 2008
You may come across some head-scratching words during your research about Tarantulas. Hope this list will help.
- avic --- an Avicularia specie, or sometimes specifically Avicularia avicularia
- brachy --- a Brachypelma specie
- CB --- Captive Bred (the specimen was hatched in captivity)
- CBB --- Captive Bred and Born (the specimen was hatched from a breeding attempt in captivity)
- DCF --- Dark Color Form
- DIY --- Do It Yourself
- grammy --- a Grammostola specie
- gravid --- pregnant with eggs
- GBB --- GreenBottle Blue Tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens)
- Haplo --- a Haplopelma specie
- instar --- The number of molts a specimen has gone through, usually only apply to spiderling)
- KB --- King Baboon Tarantula (Citharischius crawshayi)
- LTC --- Long-Term Captive (a wild-caught specimen that has been kept in captivity for a long time)
- MM --- Mature Male
- NCF --- Normal Color Form
- NW --- New World (generally mean the American continents - though technically it includes Australia)
- OBT --- Orange Baboon Tarantula (Pterinochilus murinus) aka Orange Bitey Thing
- OW --- Old World (the rest of the world that is not NW)
- pet hole --- A burrowing specie/specimen that do not frequently come out of its burrow
- pet rock --- A specimen that does not move much - usually means a Grammostola rosea
- pokie --- A Poecilotheria specie. The word Poecilotheria is more appropriately pronounced Pea-see-low-thee-ree-ah
- RCF --- Red Color Form
- rosie --- Misspelling of rosea as in Grammostola rosea
- sling --- A spiderling - baby spider
- substrate --- The "soil" at the bottom of the enclosure for the Tarantula to rest on/burrow in
- versi --- Avicularia versicolor
- T --- Tarantula. Plural is T's.
- WC --- Wild caught
- x.y.z --- x number of male, y number of female and z number of unsexed specimens (respectively)
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