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| Yellow-legged tree scorpion (Opisthacanthus asper) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Superfamily: | Scorpionoidea |
| Family: | Hormuridae Laurie, 1896[1] |
Hormuridae is a family of scorpions in the order Scorpiones. There are about 10 genera and more than 90 described species in Hormuridae.[2][3]
Genera
[edit]These 11 genera belong to the family Hormuridae:[4]
- Cheloctonus Pocock, 1892
- Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899
- Chiromachus Pocock, 1893
- Hadogenes Kraepelin, 1894
- Hormiops Fage, 1933
- Hormurus Thorell, 1876
- Iomachus Pocock, 1893
- Liocheles Sundevall, 1833
- Opisthacanthus Peters, 1861
- Palaeocheloctonus Lourenço, 1996
- Tibetiomachus Lourenço & Qi, 2006
References
[edit]- ^ Laurie, Malcolm (1896). "XVII.—Further notes on the anatomy and development of scorpions, and their bearing on the classification of the order". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6. 18 (104): 121–133. doi:10.1080/00222939608680422. ISSN 0374-5481.
- ^ "Hormuridae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
- ^ Monod, Lionel; Prendini, Lorenzo (2015). "Evidence for Eurogondwana: the roles of dispersal, extinction and vicariance in the evolution and biogeography of Indo-Pacific Hormuridae (Scorpiones: Scorpionoidea)" (PDF). Cladistics. 31: 71–111. doi:10.1111/cla.12067.
- ^ Rein, Jan Ove (2021). "Hormuridae". The Scorpion Files. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
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