Alacran

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Neoscorpionina

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Scorpiones Subordo: Neoscorpionina

Familia: Typhlochactidae
Subfamilia: Alacraninae
Genus: Alacran
Species: A. chamuco – A. tartarus

Name

Alacran Francke, 1982: 51

• Type species: Alacran tartarus Francke, 1982

References

Primary references

• Francke, O.F. 1982. Studies of the scorpion subfamilies Superstitioninae and Typhlochactinae, with description of a new genus (Scorpiones, Chactidae ). Bulletin of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies 8: 51–61. ResearchGate Reference page. 

Additional references

• Francke, O.F. 2009. A new species of Alacran (Scorpiones: Typhlochactidae) from a cave in Oaxaca, Mexico. Zootaxa 2222: 46–56. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2222.1.4 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Santibáñez-López, C.E.; Francke, O.F.; Prendini, L. 2014: Shining a light into the world’s deepest caves: phylogenetic systematics of the troglobiotic scorpion genus Alacran Francke, 1982 (Typhlochactidae: Alacraninae). Invertebrate systematics 28(6): 643-664. DOI: 10.1071/IS14035 Reference page. 
• Vignoli, V. & Prendini, L. 2009. Systematic revision of the troglomorphic North American scorpion family Typhlochactidae (Scorpiones: Chactoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (326): 1–94. DOI: 10.1206/570.1. Full article: [1].