Pedro Joaquin Peñaherrera-Romero

Pedro Joaquin Peñaherrera Romero (Pedro Peñaherrera-R.; 2001-) Ecuadorian arachnologist.

• Research associate: Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Instituto de Biodiversidad Tropical IBIOTROP, Laboratorio de Zoología Terrestre, Museo de Zoología, Quito 170901, Ecuador
• Founding member: Fundación Uru, Quito, Ecuador
• E-mail: pedropjpr5380@gmail.com

Taxon names authored

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• 22 taxon names authored by Pedro Joaquin Peñaherrera-Romero

Publications

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Formally under the name of Pedro Peñaherrera-R.

2023

• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J. 2023. Increasing knowledge of Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 (Araneae, Theraphosidae): general distribution, key to species, and three new species from Ecuador. Zookeys 1178ː 17–38. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1178.105703 Reference page. 
• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J. & Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. 2023. A new species of spider of the genus Sadala Simon, 1880 (Araneae, Sparassidae) from the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador. Ecology and Evolution 13(7, e10242): 1-6. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10242. . Reference page. .
• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J. & León-Escalante, R.J. 2023. On Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) species and tarantula conservation in Ecuador. ZooKeys 1186: 185-205. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1186.108991 Reference page. 
• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-Escalante, R.J., Pinos-Sánchez, A. & Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. 2023a. A new species of Linothele Karsch, 1879 (Araneae: Dipluridae) from south-eastern Ecuador. Arachnology 19(4): 713-720. Reference page. 
• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-E., R.J., Pinos-Sánchez, A. & Falcón-Reibán, J.M. 2023b. Two new species of Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from eastern and western Ecuador. Zootaxa 5351(4): 483–493. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.4.6 . Reference page. 
• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-Escalante, R.J. & Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. 2023c. First record of Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875) (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Ecuador. Check List 19(2): 141-145. DOI: 10.15560/19.2.141. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Ray Gabriel, Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., León-Escalante, 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. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.894. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Ray Gabriel, Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2023f. On the tarantula genus Xenesthis Simon, 1891, with description of a new species from Venezuela (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taxonomy 3: 509-527. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy3040029. . Reference page. 

2024

• Peñaherrera-Romero, 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. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.7.1003. . Reference page. 
• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., Guerrero-Molina, T. & Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. 2024a. On the first Subandean species of Eutichurus Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) from the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador. Zootaxa 5477(2): 246–259. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.2.8. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Marusik, Y.M., Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Calderón-Carvajal, J. & Sharp, A. 2024. A new species of Thallumetus Simon, 1893, the first dictynid from Ascension Island (Araneae: Dictynidae). Arachnology 19(8): 1051-1054. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.8.1051. . Reference page.