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The species is also called Socotra Island blue baboon tarantula, usually shortened to blue baboon tarantula. The scientific name refers to the collector Isaac Bayley Balfour. The Spider is found on Socotra Island, hence the common name. This tarantula is terrestrial and an opportunistic burrower. [1]
Pages in category "Endemic birds of Socotra" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Socotra sunbird (Chalcomitra balfouri) is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is endemic to Socotra . Its natural habitats are tropical dry shrubland , tropical moist shrubland, and tropical high-altitude shrubland.
The island of Socotra and its archipelago are also part of Yemen, about 240 km (150 mi) east of the Horn of Africa and 380 km (240 mi) south of the Arabian Peninsula. These islands have a unique flora and are fringed by coral reefs. Some seven hundred species of plant and animal are endemic to the Socotra island group. [13]
There are many endemic invertebrates, including several spiders (such as the Socotra Island Blue Baboon tarantula, Monocentropus balfouri) and three species of freshwater crabs in the Potamidae (Socotra pseudocardisoma and two species in Socotrapotamon). [29] As with many isolated island systems, bats are the only mammals native to Socotra.
The effort started after a 2017 survey discovered that only 120 breeding pairs of the bird remained on the island, and of those pairs, some were killed off two years later during a “huge storm ...
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Help is on the way for the birds of Marion Island, an uninhabited South African territory about 2,000 km (1,250 miles) southeast of Cape Town.Invasive mice are eating the island’s 29 avian ...