Danniella Sherwood

Danniella Sherwood

Publishing 2018–2026

0000-0001-8170-9529
50 papers 64 species 30 genera 22 countries

Publication activity

2018 2026

New taxa described

2019 2026

Papers (50)

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D., Lucas, S. M. & Buelvas, D. A. (2026). On Crypsidromus carinatus Valerio, 1980 and its palpal bulb morphology (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 48: 67-71.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2026). Redescription of Nhandu chromatus Schmidt, 2004 stat. rest. and revalidation of Nhandu sylviae Sherwood, Gabriel & Brescovit, 2023 stat. rest. (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 20 (4): 519-526.

Gallon, R. C. & Sherwood, D. (2026). Taxonomic notes on the tarantula genus Heterothele Karsch, 1879 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) with a new synonymy, resurrection of H. longipalpis Karsch, 1879, two nomina dubia, and description of a new species from Tanzania. Arachnology 20 (4): 623-639.

Geci, D., Kunt, K. B., Yağmur, E. A. & Sherwood, D. (2026). First record of Ischnocolus Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Turkey. Invertebrate Zoology 23(2): 344-349.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J. & Alayón García, G. (2025). A new species of Acanthoscurria Ausserer, 1871: proposal of the theraphosoides species-group and first published record of the genus from Colombia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 5563 (1): 237-254.

Bariev, T. B. & Sherwood, D. (2025). New data on some African tarantulas including bulb morphology in Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897 (Aranei: Theraphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 34 (1): 58-63.

Sherwood, D. & Gallon, R. C. (2025). Heterothele erdosi, a new species of Heterothele Karsch, 1879 from Nigeria (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Natura Somogyiensis 45: 51-56.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-E, R. J., Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2025). Revisiting the tarantula genus Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925 (Araneae, Theraphosidae): new insights on male palpal bulb morphology and description of three new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 1022: 19-50.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Rollard, C., Leguin, E. & Privet, K. (2025). Hidden treasures of the Caribbean: two new genera and one new species of Lesser Antillean ischnocoline spiders (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Natura Somogyiensis 46: 99-116.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Mora-Bolaños, J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-E, R. J., Tamayo, D. R., Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2025). A new species of Reversopelma Schmidt, 2001 from Ecuador, and two new tarantula genera from Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 20 (3): 462-472.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., León-E, R. J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., Falcón-Reibán, J. M., Fajardo-Torres, J. D., Picón-Rentería, P., Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. (2025). Novel insights on Psalmopoeinae Samm & Schmidt, 2010 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): new species, taxonomic restorations, and reversal of four erroneous synonymies. Arachnology 20 (3): 491-508.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., León-E, R. J., Rollard, C., Leguin, E., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2025). On the identity of some taxa in the tarantula tribe Hapalopini, with two synonymies, and description of four new genera and three new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 46: 1-23.

Sherwood, D., Blick, T. & Ballarin, F. (2025). Studies on spider nomenclature IV: additional dubious and unavailable nomina, status of genera with invalid type species, further synonymies, and emendations (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 43-54.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2024). Two new species of Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 31: 1-8.

Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Ghia, T., Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2024). New insights on male palpal bulb morphology in Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020, with four new species from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(7): 1003-1017.

Sherwood, D., Jocqué, R. & Henrard, A. (2024). A regenerated chelicera in an African tarantula, Anoploscelus lesserti Laurent, 1946 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Animal Taxonomy and Ecology 70 (4): 401-404.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Questel, K., Rollard, C. & Leguin, E. (2024). A new species of Cyrtopholis Simon, 1892 from Montserrat, with notes on some other Caribbean theraphosines (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19 (9): 1298-1307.

Sherwood, D. & Tripathi, R. (2024). Notes on a type specimen of Poecilotheria Simon, 1885 from India (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 160: 13-14.

Sherwood, D. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2024). On ten unavailable and thirty-four dubious names for spiders (Araneae) from India. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 113-118.

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A. & Van Den Spiegel, D. (2024). Selenogyrus foordi, a new species and the first record of the subfamily Selenogyrinae Smith, 1990 from Guinea (Araneae, Theraphosidae). African Invertebrates 65 (2): 37-48.

Sherwood, D. (2024). Studies on spider nomenclature - I: miscellaneous notes on unrecognisable species, new synonyms, and untenable subspecies (Araneae: Araneomorphae). The Indochina Entomologist 1 (23): 189-235.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Osorio, L. M., Benavides, L., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Hörweg, C., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2024). Spot the difference: on the genus Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 in Colombia and a new related genus from Brazil and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 32: 1-44.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Brescovit, A. D. (2023). Nhandu sylviae sp. nov.: first record of the genus from Guyana (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(4): 708-712.

Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2023). Four new species and two new genera of theraphosid spider from Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(6): 944-951.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., León-E, R. J., Cisneros-Heredia, D. F., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2023). Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901: redescriptions, new species and records, description of a missing sex, with taxonomic notes and changes in Megaphobema Pocock, 1901 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(6): 894-930.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P. J., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2023). On the Tarantula Genus Xenesthis Simon, 1891, with Description of a New Species from Venezuela (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taxonomy 3: 509-527.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2022). Euthycaelus janae, a new species and the first record of the subfamily Schismatothelinae from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Faunitaxys 10(49): 1-4.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2022). Thrixopelma nadineae, a New Theraphosine from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taxonomy 2: 255-260.

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2022). Taxonomy, biogeography, and ecology of some theraphosid spiders of the Darién region with description of five new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 40: 5-18.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2022). A new species and two new genera of theraphosine from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 247-256.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2022). On the species of Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901 deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, with redescriptions of type material, the first record of P. grandis Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 from Peru, and the description of four new species. Arachnology 19(3): 650-674.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2021). An anomalous spermathecae resolved after moulting events in a female of Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 with a review of spermathecal anomalies in theraphosid spiders (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 39: 139-143.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2021). A new species of Guyruita Guadanucci, Lucas, Indicatti & Yamamoto, 2007 from French Guiana (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(7): 708-710.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2021). A new species of Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 from Colombia and a transfer from Proshapalopus Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(8): 838-843.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Kaderka, R., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2021). Stabilizing a chaotic taxonomy: redescription and redefinition of the genera Lasiodorides Schmidt & Bischoff, 1997 and Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(8): 893-917.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2021). A new species of Spinosatibiapalpus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 38: 87-91.

Sherwood, D., Ferretti, N., Gabriel, R. & West, R. C. (2021). Redescription of the theraphosine Hapalotremus albipes Simon, 1903 and description of four new species of Hapalotremus Simon, 1903 from Peru and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(9): 965-989.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2020). A new species of Umbyquyra Gargiulo, Brescovit & Lucas, 2018 from Goiás, Brazil (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(6): 619-622.

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2020). Revised taxonomic placement of Pseudhapalopus Strand, 1907, with notes on some related taxa (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(4): 301-316.

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2020). Revised taxonomic placement of some Mesoamerican Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895, with description of three new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(4): 387-398.

Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Longhorn, S. J. (2020). The revised taxonomic placement of the genus Acentropelma Pocock, 1901 and restoration of the genus Pseudoschizopelma Smith, 1995 (Aranei: Theraphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(4): 453-466.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2019). The first records of Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875) from Guyana and Panama (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(3): 280-283.

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019). The revised taxonomic placement of some arboreal Ornithoctoninae Pocock, 1895 with description of a new species of Omothymus Thorell, 1891 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(2): 137-147.

Sherwood, D. (2019). Aphonopelma braunshausenii Tesmoingt, 1996 is a nomen dubium, with review of some historic morphological characters ineffective at species delineation (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 4657(3): 573-580.

Sherwood, D. (2019). Revised Taxonomic Placement of Poecilotheria chaojii Mirza, Sanap & Bhosale, 2014 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(1): 19-21.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Longhorn, S. J. (2019). A new synonymy in the genus Homoeomma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with comments on potential homonymy. Bionomina 15: 69-73.

Pérez-Miles, F., Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019). Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925, senior synonym of Ami Pérez-Miles, 2008 and Barropelma Chamberlin, 1940 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(2): 150-155.

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019). A new genus and species of theraphosid spider from Sarawak, Borneo (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(1): 19-34.

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Longhorn, S. J. (2018). A new species of Homoeomma Ausserer, 1871 from Chile (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 33(3): 19-33.

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2018). Re-description of the male of Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925 with the first description of the female (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 33(1): 8-18.