Gondwanan Origin of Tarantulas

Great to see that Saoirse Foley’s thesis chapter on the biogeography of tarantulas has been published (here). This work confirms their Gondwanan origins and, interestingly, demonstrates that at least one lineage of likely arboreal tarantulas and a separate lineage of likely fossorial tarantulas rafted on the Indian subcontinent from Africa to Asia.

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