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Number of families
editRegardless of any controversies, you cannot say '120 families' in one place and '129 families' in another.
Poor English in the introduction
editVery poor punctuation.
New spider pigments described
editIn addition to ommochrome, bilin and guanine, eumelanin, and carotenoids have been described in spiders.
- Hsiung, Bor-Kai; Blackledge, Todd; Shawkey, Matthew (2015-11-18). "Spiders do have melanin after all". Journal of Experimental Biology. 218 (22): 3632–3635. doi:10.1242/jeb.128801. PMID 26449977.
- Hsiung, Bor-Kai; Justyn, Nicholas; Blackledge, Todd; Matthew, Shawkey (2017-05-31). "Spiders have rich pigmentary and structural colour palettes". Journal of Experimental Biology. 220 (11): 1975–1983. doi:10.1242/jeb.156083. PMID 28566355.
Lead image
editThere are too many images in the lead. I think it would be better if there were just three images representing the major modern groups; Mesothelae, Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae. LittleJerry (talk) 00:09, 18 April 2024 (UTC)