Sarax

Sarax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Amblypygi
Family:	Charinidae
Genus:	Sarax Simon, 1892

Sarax is a genus of amblypygids of the family Charinidae.

Species

There are 17 species in this genus.

• Sarax brachydactylus Simon, 1892 – Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines ^[1]
• Sarax buxtoni Gravely, 1915 – Malaysia, Singapore
• Sarax cavernicola Rahmadi, Harvey & Kojima, 2010 – Borneo ^[2]
• Sarax cochinensis Gravely, 1915 – India
• Sarax curioi Giupponi & Miranda, 2012 – Philippines ^[3]
• Sarax davidovi Fage, 1946 – Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam ^[1]
• Sarax huberi Seiter, Wolff & Hörweg, 2015 – Philippines ^[4]
• Sarax ioanniticus Kritscher, 1959 – Greece, Turkey, Israel
• Sarax javensis Gravely, 1915 – Java
• Sarax mardua Rahmadi, Harvey & Kojima, 2010 – Borneo ^[5]
• Sarax monodenticulatus Rahmadi & Kojima, 2010 – Waigeo Island
• Sarax newbritainensis Rahmadi & Kojima, 2010 – New Britain
• Sarax rimosus Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
• Sarax sangkulirangensis Rahmadi, Harvey & Kojima, 2010 – Borneo
• Sarax sarawakensis Thorell, 1888 – Andaman Islands, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Kalimantan), Malaysia (Sarawak, Selangor), Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands ^[6]
• Sarax singaporae Gravely, 1911 – Singapore
• Sarax timorensis de Miranda & Reboleira, 2019 – Timor-Leste ^[7]
• Sarax willeyi Simon, 1892 – Papua New Guinea
• Sarax yayukae Rahmadi, Harvey & Kojima, 2010 – Borneo

References

1. Weygoldt, Peter (2000). Whip Spiders: Their Biology, Morphology and Systematics. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. p. 164. ISBN   978-8-7887-5746-0.
2. Rahmadi, Cahyo; Harvey, Mark; Kojima, Jun-ichi (2010). "Whip spiders of the genus Sarax Simon 1892 (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Borneo Island". Zootaxa. 2612: 1–21. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2612.1.1 – via ResearchGate.
3. Giupponi, Alessandro; Miranda, Gustavo (March 2012). "A new species of Sarax Simon, 1892 from the Philippines (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae)". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 84 (1): 165–74. doi: 10.1590/S0001-37652012000100017 . PMID   22441606.
4. Seiter, Michael; Wolff, Jonas; Hörweg, Christoph (2015). "A new species of the South East Asian genus Sarax Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) and synonymization of Sarax mediterraneus Delle Cave, 1986". Zootaxa. 4012 (3): 542–552. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.8. PMID   26623874 – via ResearchGate.
5. Rahmadi, Cahyo; Harvey, Mark S.; Kojima, Jun-Ichi Kojima (2010). "Whip spiders of the genus Sarax Simon 1892 (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Borneo Island". Zootaxa. 2612 (1): 1–21. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2612.1.1 . Retrieved 30 November 2019.
6. 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. 398.
7. Miranda, Gustavo Silva de; Reboleira, Ana Sofia Pereira Serrenho (2019). "Amblypygids of Timor-Leste: first records of the order from the country with the description of a remarkable new species of Sarax (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Charinidae)". ZooKeys (820): 1–12. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.820.30139 . PMC   6361877 .