Am I Making This Up?
Hi this is regarding the common name of Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, the greenbottle blue. I could have sworn I read that the person who named this animal found a blue tarantula inside a green bottle. Everyone I've talked to recently says the name comes from the spider being both green and blue. However, when I went to look up the name origin to dispute them, I found nothing citing my original theory.
Does anyone else remember ever hearing this? I may just be crazy but there must be a reason it's called the "green bottle blue tarantula" and not the "green blue bottle tarantula". Why wouldn't the colors be next to each other if they're both referring to the spider? Plus, outside of my (seemingly made up) origin theory, no one has an explanation as to why the word "bottle" is even in the name.