Buthoidea

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Buthoidea
Temporal range: Anisian to recent
Odonturus dentatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Parvorder: Buthida
Soleglad and Fet, 2003
Superfamily: Buthoidea
C. L. Koch, 1837
Families

Buthoidea is the largest superfamily of scorpions. Its members are known as fat-tailed scorpions and bark scorpions. A few very large genera (Ananteris, Centruroides, Compsobuthus, or Tityus) are known, but a high number of species-poor or monotypic ones also exist.[1] They occur in the warmer parts of every major landmass on Earth, except on New Zealand.[1] The superfamily was established by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1837.[1]

Taxonomy

Five families are placed into Buthoidea, two extant families Buthidae and Microcharmidae, plus three extinct families.

References

  1. ^ a b c Rein, Jan Ove (2008): The Scorpion Files - Buthidae. Retrieved June 25, 2008.