Paracharontidae
| Paracharontidae | |
|---|---|
| Paracharon caecus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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, one of the two suborders within Amblypygi.[3] The family contains two genera: Paracharon, containing the single species Paracharon caecus 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; P. caecus lives in termite nests while J. ipuanai inhabits caves.[4][3]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.