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DateProcessResult
October 22, 2005 Good article nomineeListed
July 30, 2006 Featured article candidateNot promoted
October 20, 2008 Good article reassessmentKept
Current status: Good article

Number of families

Regardless of any controversies, you cannot say '120 families' in one place and '129 families' in another.

Poor English in the introduction

Very poor punctuation.

New spider pigments described

In 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

There 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) reply