作者
Gustavo S de Miranda, Siddharth S Kulkarni, Jéssica Tagliatela, Caitlin M Baker, Alessandro PL Giupponi, Facundo M Labarque, Efrat Gavish-Regev, Michael G Rix, Leonardo S Carvalho, Lívia Maria Fusari, Mark S Harvey, Hannah M Wood, Prashant P Sharma
发表日期
2024/5/11
期刊
Systematic Biology
页码范围
syae021
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Asymmetrical rates of cladogenesis and extinction abound in the Tree of Life, resulting in numerous minute clades that are dwarfed by larger sister groups. Such taxa are commonly regarded as phylogenetic relicts or “living fossils” when they exhibit an ancient first appearance in the fossil record and prolonged external morphological stasis, particularly in comparison to their more diversified sister groups. Due to their special status, various phylogenetic relicts tend to be well-studied and prioritized for conservation. A notable exception to this trend is found within Amblypygi (“whip spiders”), a visually striking order of functionally hexapodous arachnids that are notable for their antenniform first walking leg pair (the eponymous “whips”). Paleoamblypygi, the putative sister group to the remaining Amblypygi, is known from Late Carboniferous and Eocene deposits, but is survived by a single living species, Paracharon …
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