[HTML][HTML] Systematics of the relictual Asian scorpion family Pseudochactidae Gromov, 1998, with a review of cavernicolous, troglobitic, and troglomorphic scorpions

L Prendini, VL Ehrenthal, SF Loria - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2021 - BioOne
The first integrative systematic revision of the relictual Asian scorpion family
Pseudochactidae Gromov, 1998, making use of an unprecedented collection of material …

Systematic revision of the neotropical club-tailed scorpions, Physoctonus, Rhopalurus, and Troglorhopalurus, revalidation of Heteroctenus, and descriptions of two …

LA Esposito, HY Yamaguti, CA Souza… - Bulletin of the American …, 2017 - BioOne
The Neotropical “club-tailed” scorpions of the genus Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876, and two
related genera in family Buthidae CL Koch, 1837, ie, Physoctonus Mello-Leitão, 1934, and …

[HTML][HTML] Brazilian obligatory subterranean fauna and threats to the hypogean environment

JE Gallão, ME Bichuette - ZooKeys, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The subterranean environment harbors species that are not capable of establishing
populations in the epigean environment, ie, the obligatory subterranean species. These …

Immolation of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro–unforgettable fire and irreplaceable loss

AB Kury, APL Giupponi, AC Mendes - The Journal of Arachnology, 2018 - JSTOR
In 1807, the Portuguese royal government made a strategic retreat in advance of Napoleon
I's invasion of Lisbon, and transferred the government to its thriving ex-colony of Brazil. Rio …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic distinctness and conservation of a new high biodiversity subterranean area in Brazil

JE Gallao, ME Bichuette - Anais da Academia brasileira de Ciências, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
Subterranean environments, even though they do not possess a primary production
(photosynthesis), may present high biodiversity, faunistic originality, endemism …

[PDF][PDF] Plucking with the plectrum: phylogeny of the New World buthid scorpion subfamily Centruroidinae Kraus, 1955 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) reveals evolution of three …

L Esposito, H Yamaguti… - Arthropod …, 2018 - arthropod-systematics.arphahub …
All New World buthid scorpions except one South American genus, Ananteris Thorell, 1891,
comprise a monophyletic group. The monophyly of two subfamilies, Centruroidinae Kraus …

There and Back Again—The Igatu Hotspot Siliciclastic Caves: Expanding the data for subterranean fauna in Brazil, Chapada Diamantina Region

JE Gallão, DB Ribeiro, JS Gallo, ME Bichuette - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
The caves of Igatu, municipality of Andaraí, belonging to the region known as Chapada
Diamantina represent a new hotspot of subterranean fauna. These caves are siliciclastic …

[PDF][PDF] Invertebrates diversity in mountain Neotropical quartzite caves: which factors can influence the composition, richness, and distribution of the cave communities?

MS Silva, LFM Iniesta, RL Ferreira - Subterranean Biology, 2020 - subtbiol.pensoft.net
Twenty caves located in a high altitudinal quartzite area in Brazil were examined for
invertebrate richness and composition and in terms of environmental factors that determine …

Aops oncodactylus, gen. et sp. nov., the first troglobitic urodacid (Urodacidae: Scorpiones), with a re-assessment of cavernicolous, troglobitic and troglomorphic …

ES Volschenk, L Prendini - Invertebrate Systematics, 2008 - CSIRO Publishing
We describe a new genus and species of troglomorphic scorpion from Ledge Cave, Barrow
Island, off the north-western coast of Western Australia. This troglobite scorpion was initially …

On the troglomorphic scorpion Troglotayosicus humiculum (Scorpiones, Troglotayosicidae), with first description of the adults

JA Ochoa, R Botero-Trujillo, L Prendini - American Museum Novitates, 2010 - BioOne
The endemic Colombian troglomorphic scorpion, Troglotayosicus humiculum, previously
known only from the juvenile holotype, is redescribed based on newly collected adults of …