Sandokanidae
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thumb | right | alt=A black-and-white drawing of an Oncopus truncatus Thorrell, facing right, with 8 legs | Drawing of female Oncopus truncatus Thorrell Sandokanidae is a family of harvestmen in the suborder Laniatores, formerly referred to as Oncopodidae (the name was replaced because of the secondary homonymy of the type genus Oncopus, replaced by Sandokan; this made the change of family name mandatory)
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- Family
- Sandokanidae
- Collections
- MCZ, USNM, UF
- Recorded in
- Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Epedanoidea
- Image
- 2006 The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature p169 Fig. 1.jpg
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- taxon name
- Sandokanidae
- taxon rank
- family
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Name
- Description
- Distribution
- Relationships
- Species
- References
thumb | right | alt=A black-and-white drawing of an Oncopus truncatus Thorrell, facing right, with 8 legs | Drawing of female Oncopus truncatus Thorrell Sandokanidae is a family of harvestmen in the suborder Laniatores, formerly referred to as Oncopodidae (the name was replaced because of the secondary homonymy of the type genus Oncopus, replaced by Sandokan; this made the change of family name mandatory)
==Name== The name of the type genus is based on the name of a fictional Bornean prince-pirate.
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