Leiurus

thumb|Leiurus jordanensis adult female in captivity

Species

KINGDOM

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassTeleostei
OrderPerciformes
FamilyGasterosteidae

Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater

Observations recorded3,012,139,120

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records: 4
Family: Buthidae
Collections: MNHN, ANSP
Recorded in: éGypte

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thumb|Leiurus jordanensis adult female in captivity

Leiurus is a genus of scorpion of the family Buthidae. The most common species, L. quinquestriatus, is also known under the common name Deathstalker. It is distributed widely across North Africa and the Middle East, including the western and southern Arabian Peninsula and southeastern Turkey. At least one species occurs in West Africa (northern Cameroon).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leiurus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.