Paracharon
| Paracharon | |
|---|---|
 | |
| P. caecus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Amblypygi |
| Family: | Paracharontidae |
| Genus: | Paracharon Hansen, 1921 |
| Species: | P. caecus |
| Binomial name | |
| Paracharon caecus Hansen, 1921 | |
Paracharon is a genus of tailless whip scorpion. A single species, Paracharon caecus, has been described. It is endemic to Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.[1] It is one of two living genera of the family Paracharontidae, alongside the South American Jorottui.[2] It is a troglobite, having no eyes, and is found living in termite nests.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Harvey, M.S. (2003). Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. p. 31.
- ↑ Moreno-González, Jairo A.; Gutierrez-Estrada, Miguel; Prendini, Lorenzo (2023-06-28). "Systematic Revision of the Whip Spider Family Paracharontidae (Arachnida: Amblypygi) with Description of a New Troglobitic Genus and Species from Colombia". American Museum Novitates (4000): 1–36. doi:10.1206/4000.1. ISSN 0003-0082.
- ↑ de Miranda, Gustavo S; Kulkarni, Siddharth S; Tagliatela, Jéssica; Baker, Caitlin M; Giupponi, Alessandro P L; Labarque, Facundo M; Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Rix, Michael G; Carvalho, Leonardo S; Fusari, Lívia Maria; Harvey, Mark S; Wood, Hannah M; Sharma, Prashant P (2024). "The rediscovery of a relict unlocks the first global phylogeny of whip spiders (Amblypygi)". Systematic Biology. 73 (3): 495–505. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syae021. PMID 38733598.
- ↑ Garwood, Russell J.; Dunlop, Jason A.; Knecht, Brian J.; Hegna, Thomas A. (December 2017). "The phylogeny of fossil whip spiders". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 105. Bibcode:2017BMCEE..17..105G. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0931-1. PMC 5399839. PMID 28431496.
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