Paracharon

Paracharon
P. caecus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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, with P. caecus found living in termite nests. ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.