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Neobisiidae

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Neobisiidae

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Neobisiidae is a family of pseudoscorpions distributed throughout Africa, the Americas and Eurasia and consist of 748 species in 34 genera. Some species live in caves while some are surface-dwelling.

Species

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FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderPseudoscorpiones
  5. FamilyNeobisiidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded20,448

Neobisiidae vormt een familie binnen de orde der Bastaardschorpioenen (Pseudoscorpiones).

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
34
With media
7
Family
Neobisiidae
Collections
MCZ, CU, TTU, ZMBN
Recorded in
United States, Mexico, Spain, New Caledonia, Dominica, Norway, Netherlands

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Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Characteristics
  • Genera
  • References

Neobisiidae is a family of pseudoscorpions distributed throughout Africa, the Americas and Eurasia and consist of 748 species in 34 genera. Some species live in caves while some are surface-dwelling.

==Characteristics== The body color ranges from reddish or dark brown through olive green to yellow or creamy white. The legs are greenish. They usually have four eyes, but cave-dwelling species often have two or no eyes at all. The body length ranges from 1 to 5 mm.

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

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