Two new alkali-sink specialist species of Paruroctonus Werner 1934 (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) from central California

Lauren Esposito1

1 California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, 94118, San Francisco, United States

Corresponding author(s): Lauren Esposito (lesposito@calacademy.org)

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Resource Citation

Esposito L (2023): Two new alkali-sink specialist species of Paruroctonus Werner 1934 (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) from central California. v1.3. ZooKeys. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.pensoft.net/resource?r=alkali_sink_paruroctonus&v=1.3

Abstract

Specimens collected and deposited at the California Academy of Sciences of the following scorpion species:
Paruroctonus soda Jain, Forbes, Esposito 2022
Paruroctonus conclusus Jain, Forbes, Esposito 2022

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Two new alkali-sink specialist species of Paruroctonus Werner 1934 (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) from central California
Personnel: Lauren Esposito

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.pensoft.net/resource?r=alkali_sink_paruroctonus

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Species: Paruroctonus soda, Paruroctonus conclusus

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Southern California, United States of America
Coordinates: 34°22'46.97''N and 37°51'27.03''N Latitude; 122°17'59.3''W and 117°46'24.38''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: May 30, 2021 - August 2, 2022

Natural collections description

Collection name: California Academy of Sciences
Specimen preservation method: Alcohol

Methods

Method step description: Specimens collected at night using UV light detection, submerged in ethanol upon collection
Study extent description: Carrizo Plain in San Luis Obispo county and Koehn Lake playa in the Mojave Desert of Kern County
Sampling description: Hand collected using UV light

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Two new alkali-sink specialist species of Paruroctonus Werner 1934 (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) from central California
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.pensoft.net/archive.do?r=alkali_sink_paruroctonus
Publication date of data: 2023-06-02
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-06-02
Hierarchy level: Dataset