Paracharon Explained

Paracharon is a genus of tailless whip scorpion. A single species, Paracharon caecus, has been described. It is endemic to Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.[1] It is one of two living genera of the family Paracharontidae, alongside the South American Jorottui.[2] It is a troglobite, having no eyes, and is found living in termite nests.[3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Harvey, M.S.. 2003. Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. CSIRO Publishing. 31.
  2. Moreno-González . Jairo A. . Gutierrez-Estrada . Miguel . Prendini . Lorenzo . 2023-06-28 . Systematic Revision of the Whip Spider Family Paracharontidae (Arachnida: Amblypygi) with Description of a New Troglobitic Genus and Species from Colombia . American Museum Novitates . 4000 . 1–36 . 10.1206/4000.1 . 0003-0082.
  3. de Miranda . Gustavo S . Kulkarni . Siddharth S . Tagliatela . Jéssica . Baker . Caitlin M . Giupponi . Alessandro P L . Labarque . Facundo M . Gavish-Regev . Efrat . Rix . Michael G . Carvalho . Leonardo S . Fusari . Lívia Maria . Harvey . Mark S . Wood . Hannah M . Sharma . Prashant P . The rediscovery of a relict unlocks the first global phylogeny of whip spiders (Amblypygi) . Systematic Biology . 2024 . 73 . 3 . 495–505 . 10.1093/sysbio/syae021. 38733598 .
  4. Garwood . Russell J. . Dunlop . Jason A. . Knecht . Brian J. . Hegna . Thomas A. . December 2017 . The phylogeny of fossil whip spiders . BMC Evolutionary Biology . en . 17 . 1 . 105 . 10.1186/s12862-017-0931-1 . 5399839 . 28431496 . free . 2017BMCEE..17..105G .

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