Biology:Grassatores

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Short description: Order of harvestmen/daddy longlegs

Grassatores
Temporal range: Cretaceous–present
Opiliones, Laniatores, F. Samoidae, Pellobunus insularis, female (2532168387).jpg
Pellobunus insularis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Laniatores
Infraorder: Grassatores
Kury, 2002
Superfamilies

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The Grassatores are the most diverse infraorder of the Laniatores. It includes over 3,500 species distributed mainly in the tropics[1] They are characterized by the male genitalia without musculature, operated by hydraulic pressure and by the double tarsal claws of posterior legs.

Superfamilies

References

  1. Kury, A.B.(2003). Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, vol. especial monográfico 1: 1-337.

External links

  • Classification of Opiliones A synoptic taxonomic arrangement of the order Opiliones, down to family-group level, including some photos of the families

Wikidata ☰ Q3115680 entry