Sazima's Tarantula
Kingdom Animalia
Pterinopelma sazimai
Location: Brazil
- bright blue color, but appears different colors depending on angle of light
- at risk due to loss of habitat and over-collecting for the pet trade
- lives high upon tabletop mountains which have a greater rainfall and different soils than the immediately surrounding area
- named in honor of Dr. Ivan Sazima “an important Brazilian zoologist who was the first researcher to collect exemplars of this species in the decades of 1970 and 1980