Buthoscorpio

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Buthoscorpio
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Buthidae
Genus: Buthoscorpio
Type species
Buthoscorpio sarasinorum
(Karsch, 1891)
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • StenochirusKarsch, 1891 (nec. Stenochirus Oppel, 1861) [1]

Buthoscorpio is a genus of scorpions in the family Buthidae. [2]

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Taxonomy

Distribution

Species of this genus are found in India and Sri Lanka. [4]

Description

The length of the scorpion ranges from 30 to 52 mm. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "PBDB Taxon".
  2. ↑ Lourenço, Wilson. FURTHER TAXONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS ON THE GENUS BUTHOSCORPIO WERNER, 1936 (SCORPIONES, BUTHIDAE), WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM INDIA. ()
  3. ↑ Amir, Rafat, Syed Kamaluddin & Afshan Jabbar. 2005. Two new species of the genus Stenochirus Karsch (Arachnida: Scorpionida: Buthidae) from Pakistan with their relationship, chromatography and electrophoresis of venom. International Journal of Biology & Biotechnology 2: 531-540.
  4. ↑ Fet, Sissom, Lowe & Braunwalder, 2000 : Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998). New York Entomological Society, p. 1-690.
  5. ↑ Charles University; Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Monell Chemical Senses Center; Ranawana, Kithsiri B.; University of Peradeniya; Hoferek, David; Jayarathne, V. A. Sanjeewa; University of Peradeniya (2016). "Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat. n" . Euscorpius (220): 1–133. doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1 . Retrieved 2021-08-29.


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