World spider catalogue

Marduk schrieb am 25.03.2005 um 18:42 Uhr:

Hi
vielleicht kennen einigen von euch diese Seite

http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/THERAPHOSIDAE.html

ich wollte ma fragen, ob mir jemand helfen kann die zu verstehen.
Also ich mein was bedeuten die Abkürzungen die da so benutzt werden "m", "f", "mf","Dm","Dmf", "Df", "S","Sm", "Tf", "Tm", "Tmf".
m und f vielleicht irgendwie für Geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in der Erstbeschreibung oder wie?
Ich blick da nich durch, naja vielleicht weiß es jemand.
Bis denn
Gruß Matthias

Morbus ascendit schrieb am 27.03.2005 um 21:40 Uhr:

Moin Marduk,

steht inne Introduction ...:

"Citations are annotated in parentheses, in a style similar to Brignoli's, using the following conventions. Male or female signs (m or f) alone indicate that palpal or epigynal illustrations are included (hence figure references without such annotations include only somatic characters, generally through scanning electron micrographs; citations are not provided for cases where authors supplied only a general view of the body). The letter D indicates an original description, either of a taxon or of a previously unknown sex. The letter T indicates that one or both sexes have been transferred from a specified genus to the one under consideration; tentative statements indicating that a species "possibly belongs" or "may belong" elsewhere are not included as transfers (or synonymies). The letter S indicates that details of one or more new synonymies can be found immediately under the generic listing; an S followed by a male or female sign indicates that a previously unknown sex has been added through a synonymy. Brignoli's and my uses of these abbreviations are reasonably consistent; Roewer's usage was far less consistent, and there are therefore many discrepancies in the use of these conventions in the pre-1940 citations. The type species of each genus is marked with an asterisk (*). As in all previous spider catalogs, generic and specific names abbreviated as a single letter followed by a period refer to the currently valid name and spelling (i.e., the names in boldface type), not necessarily to an immediately preceding entry."

*FG*
Uwe