Megacina

Megacina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Opiliones
Family:Phalangodidae
Genus:Megacina
Ubick & Briggs, 2008

Megacina is a genus of armoured harvestmen in the family Phalangodidae. There are at least four described species in Megacina.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species

These four species belong to the genus Megacina:

  • Megacina cockerelli (C.J. Goodnight & M.L. Goodnight, 1942) i c g b
  • Megacina madera (Briggs, 1968) i c g
  • Megacina mayacma Ubick and Briggs, 2008 i c g
  • Megacina schusteri Ubick & Briggs, 2008 i c g b

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Megacina Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Megacina". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  3. 1 2 "Megacina". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  4. 1 2 "Megacina Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  5. ↑ Kury, A.B. (2014). "Classification of Opiliones". National Museum of Brazil. Retrieved 2018-04-30.

Further reading

  • Briggs, Thomas S. (1973). "Phalangodidae from caves in the Sierra Nevada (California) with a redescription of the type genus". Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences (108): 1–15. ISSN 0068-5461.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
  • Comstock, John Henry (1912). The spider book: A manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip-scorpions, harvestmen, and other members of the class arachnida, found in America North of Mexico, with analytical keys for their clas... ISBN 978-1295195817.
  • Derkarabetian, Shahan; Steinmann, David B.; Hedin, Marshal (2010). "Repeated and time-correlated morphological convergence in cave-dwelling harvestmen (Opiliones, Laniatores) from montane western North America". PLoS One. 5: e10388. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010388.
  • Giribet, Gonzalo; Sharma, Prashant P. (2015). "Evolutionary Biology of Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones)". Annual Review of Entomology. 60: 157–175. PMID 25341103.
  • Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. ISBN 978-0877192640.
  • Kury, Adriano B. (2003). "Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia. n especial monográfico (1): 5–337. ISSN 1576-9518.
  • Kury, Adriano Brilhante (2013). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, ed. "Order Opiliones Sundevall, 1833. In: Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa (3703): 27–33. ISSN 1175-5334.
  • Kury, Adriano Brilhante (2011). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, ed. "Order Opiliones Sundevall, 1833. In: Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness". Zootaxa (3148): 112–114. ISSN 1175-5334.
  • Kury, Adriano B.; Mendes, Amanda Cruz; Souza, Daniele R. (2014). "World Checklist of Opiliones species (Arachnida). Part 1: Laniatores - Travunioidea and Triaenonychoidea". Biodiversity Data Journal. 2: 1–17. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 4238074.
  • Kury, Adriano B.; Souza, Daniele R.; Pérez-González, Abel (2015). "World Checklist of Opiliones species (Arachnida). Part 2: Laniatores - Samooidea, Zalmoxoidea and Grassatores incertae sedis". Biodiversity Data Journal. 3: 1–19. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 4698464.
  • Pinto-da-Rocha, Ricardo; Machado, Glauco; Giribet, Gonzalo, eds. (2007). Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-02343-9.

  • "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  • Kury, A.B., ed. (2009). "Project Opilionomicon. Museu Nacional, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro". Retrieved 2018-04-30.


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