Talk:Spider

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Date	Process	Result
October 22, 2005	Good article nominee	Listed
July 30, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 20, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept

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Number of families

Regardless of any controversies, you cannot say '120 families' in one place and '129 families' in another.

Poor English in the introduction

Very poor punctuation.

New spider pigments described

In addition to ommochrome, bilin and guanine, eumelanin, and carotenoids have been described in spiders.

Hsiung, Bor-Kai; Blackledge, Todd; Shawkey, Matthew (2015-11-18). "Spiders do have melanin after all". Journal of Experimental Biology. 218 (22): 3632–3635. doi:10.1242/jeb.128801. PMID 26449977.
Hsiung, Bor-Kai; Justyn, Nicholas; Blackledge, Todd; Matthew, Shawkey (2017-05-31). "Spiders have rich pigmentary and structural colour palettes". Journal of Experimental Biology. 220 (11): 1975–1983. doi:10.1242/jeb.156083. PMID 28566355.