Flag for Taxon: Typical Spiders (Suborder Araneomorphae)
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| huttonia | Typical Spiders (Suborder Araneomorphae) |
Araneomorphae is an infraorder, not a suborder |
Nov. 26, 2022 00:26:39 +0000 | loarie |
Comments
@mhedin Can you fix this?
see https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/120474/taxonomy_details for the deviation from WSC
for people seeing this flag, please do not rush to make the change, as it will be extremely disruptive; there are almost 3 million observations in this clade currently
Thanks!
I have no comment on the validity of the current taxonomy (not my expertise), just highlighting where the current deviation stems from
Well, thanks for the help! I sure hope it is changed soon.
as I said above, please don't attempt to make this change before further discussion as it will be highly disruptive :)
lets consolidate conversations about spider nodes between Order and Family here https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/495680
For some reason, the curators on iNaturalist place Araneomorphae as a suborder when it is actually an infraorder of the suborder Opisthothelae. This makes infraorders Entelegynae and Haplogynae not infraorders but a taxon lower. Furthermore, iNaturalist does not include the RTA-clade, the group of araneomorphs with a retrolateral tibial apophysis on the male palp.