Schizomida
Sign in to saveAlso known as shorttailed whipscorpion, Whip-spricket, Schizomid, short-tailed whip-scorpions, sprickets
Schizomida, also known as sprickets or short-tailed whip-scorpions, is an order of arachnids, generally less than in length. The order is not yet widely studied. E. O. Wilson has identified schizomids as among the "groups of organisms that desperately need experts to work on them."
Species
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderSchizomida
ヤイトムシ目（学名：Schizomida）は、節足動物門鋏角亜門クモ綱に所属する分類群である。 サソリモドキと似たような外見を持つ微小動物。かつて、サソリモドキと同じ仲間と見なされたこともある。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 104
- With media
- 1
- Collections
- TTU, FMNH, QM, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA)
- Recorded in
- Netherlands Antilles, Laos, Madagascar, Cuba, MéXico, United States, Gabon, Ecuador
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- Schizomus
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- Category:Schizomida
- taxon common name
- schizomida
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Schizomida, also known as sprickets or short-tailed whip-scorpions, is an order of arachnids, generally less than in length. The order is not yet widely studied. E. O. Wilson has identified schizomids as among the "groups of organisms that desperately need experts to work on them."
==Taxonomy== Schizomids are grouped into three families: Calcitronidae † (fossil; dubious) Hubbardiidae Protoschizomidae (2 genera, 15 species) Agastoschizomus Protoschizomus
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