Charinidae

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Charinidae
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Charinus vulgaris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Amblypygi
Family: Charinidae
Quintero, 1986 [1]

Charinidae is an arachnid family within the order of tailless whip scorpions. [2]

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Genera

There are four genera in the family Charinidae. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Quintero, D., Jr 1986. Revision de la clasificacion de amblypygidos pulvinados: creacion de subordenes, una nueva familia y un nuevo genero con tres nuevas especies (Arachnida: Amblypygi). In: Eberhard, W. G., Lubin, Y. D. and Robinson, B. C. (eds.). Proc. 9th int. Congr. Arachnol. (Panama 1983), pp. 203-212. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, D.C.
  2. Harvey, M.S. 2003. Order Amblypygi. pp. 59–99 in, Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. Collingwood, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing. 385 pp.
  3. Gustavo Silva de Miranda; Alessandro P.L. Giupponi; Lorenzo Prendini; Nikolaj Scharff (24 September 2021). "Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi)". European Journal of Taxonomy . 772: 1–409. doi:10.5852/EJT.2021.772.1505. ISSN   2118-9773. Wikidata   Q109525764.
  4. Gustavo Silva De Miranda; Alessandro P L Giupponi; Nikolaj Scharff; Lorenzo Prendini (2022). "Phylogeny and biogeography of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae (Arachnida: Amblypygi)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (1): 136–180. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa101 .