World Checklist of Opiliones species (Arachnida). Part 2: Laniatores – Samooidea, Zalmoxoidea and Grassatores incertae sedis

Adriano Kury1, Daniele Souza1

1 Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Corresponding author(s): Adriano Kury (adrianok@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

KURY, A.B. & SOUZA, D.R. (2014) Part 2: Laniatores – Samooidea, Zalmoxoidea and Grassatores incertae sedis. Opiliones2

Abstract

This project aims to produce a general checklist of all the valid species and subspecies names of harvestmen of the world (Arachnida, order Opiliones). This database is part 2 of 12 of a project containing an intended worldwide checklist of species and subspecies of Opiliones, and it includes the superfamilies Samooidea and Zalmoxoidea plus the Grassatores currently not allocated to any family.  In this Part 2, a total of 556 species and subspecies are listed.

Keywords: Checklist, Taxonomicauthority

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.pensoft.net/resource?r=opiliones2

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Superfamilies Samooidea and Zalmoxoidea plus the Grassatores currently not allocated to any family.
Taxonomic ranks
Superfamily: Samooidea, Zalmoxoidea

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Worldwide. There is no Laurasian (Nearctic + Palearctic) representative of the groups treated here. Both Samooidea and Zalmoxoidea reach their diversity peak in the Neotropics.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Living time period: 1758-2014

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive World Checklist of Opiliones species (Arachnida). Part 2: Laniatores – Samooidea, Zalmoxoidea and Grassatores incertae sedis
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.pensoft.net/archive.do?r=opiliones2
Publication date of data: 2021-01-13
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-10-13
Hierarchy level: Dataset