A new species of Urodacus (Scorpiones, Urodacidae) from Western Australia

Title Variants

Alternative: New Urodacus from Western Australia

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3748

By

Volschenk, Erich S.

Harvey, Mark S.
Prendini, Lorenzo

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[New York], American Museum of Natural History, c2012

Notes

Caption title.

"June 25, 2012."

A new urodacid scorpion, Urodacus butleri, n. sp., is described from Barrow Island and the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia. This species is unusually dark in color; it is compared and contrasted with three morphologically similar species, Urodacus manicatus (Thorell, 1876), Urodacus novaehollandiae Peters, 1861, and Urodacus planimanus Pocock, 1893.

Subjects

Arachnida , Australia , Classification , Scorpions , Urodacus butleri , Western Australia

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3748 2012

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 796467060