CLASSIFICATION OF Spiders
KINGDOM : ANIMALIA
PHYLUM : ARTHROPODA (Animals with jointed appendages)
CLASS : ARACHNIDA (Eight legged animals)
ORDER : ARANEAE (Animals possessing spinnerets, i.e., spiders)
SUBORDERS:
• Mesothelae
•• 1 Family, 5 Genera
• Mygalomorphae (Includes the tarantulas and their closest relatives)
•• 15 or more Families, very large number of Genera
• Araneomorphae (Includes the common spiders everyone can find in the back yard.)
•• 92 or more Families, thousands of Genera
There are over 40,000 known species of spiders, and who knows how many more that have yet to be discovered and classified.
There are thousands of species of spider, all in the Class Arachnida and the Order Araneae.
Some scientific/binomial names follow as examples;
Water spider - Argyroneta aquatica
Red knee tarantula - Brachypelma smithi
Jumping spider (from New Guinea) - Salticus perogaster
Lampshade spider - Hypochilus jemez
New Zealand black widow spider/katipo spider - Latrodectus katipo
A scientist that studies spiders is an arachnologist.
In ordinary English they are called arachnids. In scientific nomenclature the Latin word "Arachnida" is used.
Spiders are called "arachnids" I believe.
Arachnologist.
Entomologist.
Arachnid
Aranea
a scatologist
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A scientist is someone who studies science.
The name for a gem expert is a gemologist. They are experts in natural and artificial gems.
A scientist who studies anatomy is called a anatomist.
An arachnologist is a person who engages in arachnology, the study of spiders.
Maydianne andrade is a scientist who studies Cannibalistic Spiders.
The name of a scientist that studies sports is called a sports scientist.
An arachnologist
A scientist who studies crystals is known as a Crystallographer.
A scientist who studies animals is called a zoologist.
A scientist who studies animal life is a zoologist. There is no particular name for a scientist that specialises in platypuses.
The name for this type of scientist is a teuthologist
This answer is a entomologistA scientist who only studies fish is called an ichthyologist.
environmentalist
ecologist
Astronomer