Ceratolasmatidae

Ceratolasmatidae
Acuclavella shoshone
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Dyspnoi
Superfamily: Ischyropsalidoidea
Family: Ceratolasmatidae
Shear, 1986
Species
see text
Diversity
11 species

The Ceratolasmatidae are a family of harvestmen with eleven described species.

The monophyly of this family is questionable; it is composed of three possibly monophyletic groups:[1]

Distribution

The family is restricted to North America, from California to British Columbia. Crosbycus is also found in Eastern Asia.[1]

Name

The genus name is a combination of Ancient Greek keras "horn" and the ending -lasma, referring to the similarity of genera such as Ortholasma and Dendrolasma (Nemastomatidae).[1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gruber, Jürgen (2007): Ceratolasmatidae Shear, 1986. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 134ff

References

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