Creating An ID System
A Test: Australian Ground Spiders
- Family: Trochanteriidae
- Genera: 15
- Species: 121
- Structures: genitalia
Challenges
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Incorporating variation due to pose.
• Take 4–12 images of each specimen -
Incorporating variation due to condition (e.g., age or debris)…
...and to intraspecific variation
Solutions?
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Many individuals per species
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Image processing in Photoshop
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Carefully selected training sets