Paracharontidae

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Paracharontidae
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Paracharon caecus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Amblypygi
Suborder: Paleoamblypygi
Family: Paracharontidae
Weygoldt, 1996 [1]
Genera

Paracharontidae is an arachnid family within the order Amblypygi (tailless whip scorpions). [2] Paracharontidae and the extinct Weygoldtinidae from the Carboniferous form the suborder Paleoamblypygi, the sister group to the remaining Amblypygi. [3] The family contains two genera: Paracharon , containing the single species Paracharon caecus Hansen, 1921 from Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, and Jorottui with the single species Jorottui ipuanai from Colombia in northern South America. [4] [5] Paracharonopsis from the Eocene (Ypresian) aged Cambay amber of India was initially assigned to this family [6] but this was later questioned and it has since been reassigned to Euamblypygi. [7] [5] Both living species are troglobites, having no eyes, with P. caecus living in termite nests, while J. ipuanai inhabits caves. [4] [3]

References

  1. ↑ Weygoldt, P. (1996). Evolutionary morphology of whip spiders: towards a phylogenetic system (Chelicerata: Arachnida: Amblypygi). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolution Research 34: 185–202.
  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. 1 2 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 . ISSN   1471-2148. PMC   5399839 . PMID   28431496.
  4. 1 2 Miranda, Gustavo S. de; 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; 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. bioRxiv   10.1101/2022.04.26.489547 . doi:10.1093/sysbio/syae021. PMID   38733598.
  5. 1 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). doi:10.1206/4000.1. ISSN   0003-0082. S2CID   259275494.
  6. ↑ Engel, Michael S.; Grimaldi, David A (2014-08-06). "Whipspiders (Arachnida: Amblypygi) in amber from the Early Eocene and mid-Cretaceous, including maternal care". Novitates Paleoentomologicae (9): 1. doi: 10.17161/np.v0i9.4765 . hdl: 1808/15287 . ISSN   2329-5880.
  7. ↑ Haug, Carolin; Haug, Joachim T. (September 2021). "The fossil record of whip spiders: the past of Amblypygi". PalZ. 95 (3): 387–412. Bibcode:2021PalZ...95..387H. doi: 10.1007/s12542-021-00552-z . ISSN   0031-0220.
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