I am writing a paper on species diversity for my 3rd paper in my Master's thesis that focuses on Philippine tarantulas. However, I have difficulty in identifying the species as I am not a systematist in Tarantulas. To date, I am doing my best to capture all the anatomical features using digital stereomicroscope (including dissection) so as I could try to at least have a preliminary identification, bulbs and tibial hooks have been captured as well. Still, I dont claim to ba an expert so I'm hopeful that there could be someone in the scientific community (preferably in the academe) that would like to share his/her expertise and perhaps collaborate as a co-author for this paper. I have over 80+ dead samples, from 16 established sites, submerged in 95 % ethanol solution and some live samples from my last site, as well as one prospective new species. I am sincerely hoping for a positive response with regard to this matter.

Thank you!

Best,

Gelli

Gelli Dane T. Petros

Department of Biological Sciences

Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology

Tibanga, Iligan City 9200

Phone: (+63) 9262949646

Email: [email protected]

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