Hormuridae

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]

Hormuridae
Yellow-legged tree scorpion (Opisthacanthus asper)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Superfamily: Scorpionoidea
Family: Hormuridae
Laurie, 1896[1]

Genera

These 10 genera belong to the family Hormuridae:

  • Cheloctonus Pocock, 1892
  • Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899
  • Chiromachus Pocock, 1893
  • Hadogenes Kraepelin, 1894
  • Hormiops
  • Iomachus Pocock, 1893
  • Liocheles Sundevall, 1833
  • Opisthacanthus Peters, 1861
  • Palaeocheloctonus Lourenço, 1996
  • Tibetiomachus Q.i.Lourenço, 2006

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Hormuridae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  3. 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.


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