Biology:Phrynichus (arachnid)

Short description: Genus of whip scorpions

Phrynichus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Amblypygi
Family:	Phrynichidae
Genus:	Phrynichus Karsch, 1879

Phrynichus is a genus of tailless whipscorpions in the family Phrynichidae. There are about 16 described species in Phrynichus.

Species

These 17 species belong to the genus Phrynichus:

• Phrynichus brevispinatus Weygoldt, 1998 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus ceylonicus (C. L. Koch, 1843) ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus deflersi Simon, 1887 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus dhofarensis Weygoldt, Pohl and Polak, 2002 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus exophthalmus Whittick, 1940 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus gaucheri Weygoldt, 1998 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus heurtaultae Weygoldt, Pohl and Polak, 2002 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus jayakari Pocock, 1894 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus longespina (Simon, 1936) ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus madagascariensis Weygoldt, 1998 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus nigrimanus (C. L. Koch, 1847) ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus orientalis Weygoldt, 1998 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus phipsoni Pocock, 1894 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus pusillus Pocock, 1894 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus scaber (Gervais, 1844) ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus spinitarsus Karsch, 1879 ^{i c g}
• Phrynichus persicus, Miranda and Zamani, 2018)

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Amazonia Arachnids and Myriapoda, P. (2002). Amblypygi. Pensoft Publishers. pp. 293–301. https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/5418/CoddingtonAmazonianArachnida03.pdf. 
• Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 2008. 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. 
• Harvey, Mark S. (2003). Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-06805-8. 
• Harvey, Mark S. (2002). "The neglected cousins: what do we know about the smaller arachnid orders?". The Journal of Arachnology 30 (2): 357–372. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0357:TNCWDW2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0161-8202. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/227127. 
• Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. ISBN 978-0877192640. 

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