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class Arachnida

• Common name(s):  spiders; mites; scorpions
• Links:
  • Tree of Life
  • The Arachnology Home Page
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (8):
  • MacLeay. 1821. Horae Entomologicae: or Essays on the Annulose Animals 1(Part 2):283, 380-390 >> Note: Annulosa: Arachnida
  • Koch. 1834. Die Arachniden: Getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben 2  
  • Petrunkevitch. 1955. In Moore [Ed.]. Part P Arthropoda 2. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 42-162
  • Boudreaux. 1979. Arthropod Phylogeny with Special Reference to Insects 83, 117 >> Note: Class Arachnida Latreille, 1810
  • Dunlop. 1996. Revue suisse de Zoologie 173-184
  • Dunlop & Selden. 1998. In Fortey & Thomas [Ed.]. Arthropod Relationships 221-235 >> Note: Chelicerata: Arachnida
  • Harvey. 2003. Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei, Solifugae 400 pp.
  • Grimaldi & Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects 99 >> Note: Chelicerata: Arachnida

• synonym Arachnides
• order Acari
• synonym Acarida
• synonym Acaridae
• synonym Acaridea
• synonym Acarides
• order Amblypygi
• synonym Amblypygida
• synonym Phrynichida
• order Araneae
• synonym Araneida
• synonym Araneidea
• synonym Araneides
• order †Haptopodida
• synonym Haptopoda
• order Opiliones
• synonym Phalangidea
• synonym Phalangiida
• order Palpigradi
• synonym Palpigradida
• order †Phalangiotarbida
• synonym Architarbi
• synonym Architarbida
• order Pseudoscorpionida
• synonym Pseudoscorpiones
• order Ricinulei
• synonym Ricinuleida
• order Schizomida
• order Scorpionida
• synonym Scorpiones
• synonym Scorpionidea
• synonym Scorpionides
• order Solifugae
• synonym Solfugida
• synonym Solpugida
• order †Trigonotarbida
• synonym Anthracomartida
• order Uropygi
• synonym Thelyphonida
• synonym Uropygida

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