Troglosiro
Sign in to saveTroglosironidae is a family of harvestmen with seventeen described species in a single genus, Troglosiro, which is found on the island of New Caledonia, in the Pacific Ocean.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderOpiliones
- FamilyTroglosironidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- Family
- Troglosironidae
- Collections
- MCZ
- Recorded in
- New Caledonia
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Troglosironidae
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- taxon name
- Troglosiro
- taxon rank
- genus
- endemic to
- New Caledonia
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Troglosironidae is a family of harvestmen with seventeen described species in a single genus, Troglosiro, which is found on the island of New Caledonia, in the Pacific Ocean.
==Name== The name of the genus giving the family its name is a combination of Ancient Greek troglos "cave", and the harvestman genus Siro, a reference to the habitat of the type specimen. Despite this, the genus does not appear to be adapted for a troglobitic lifestyle, and subsequent specimens have been collected from Berlesate (soil samples run through a Berlese funnel).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Troglosiro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.