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Synthetonychiidae

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Genus of harvestmen/daddy longlegs

Synthetonychiidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Laniatores
Infraorder: Insidiatores
Superfamily: Triaenonychoidea
Family: Synthetonychiidae
Forster, 1954
Type genus
Synthetonychia
Forster, 1954
Diversity
1 genus, 14 species

The Synthetonychiidae are a small family of harvestman with a handful of species in a single genus. They are endemic to New Zealand.

Description

Species in this family are between one and two millimeters long, with legs up to almost six mm.

Distribution

All described species occur only on New Zealand.

Relationships

Synthetonychiidae seem to be closely related to the Triaenonychidae from the Australian region.

Name

The name of the type genus is combined from Ancient Greek synthetos "compounded" and onychion, the diminutive of onyx "claw".

Species

In Synthetonychia Forster, 1954:

Footnotes

  1. "Synthetonychiidae". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  2. ^ Kury, Adriano B. (2007): Synthetonychiidae. Forster, 1954. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 239ff

References

  • Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9

External links

Taxon identifiers
Synthetonychiidae
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