Tityus tenuicauda
| Tityus tenuicauda | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | Buthidae |
| Genus: | Tityus |
| Species: | T. tenuicauda |
| Binomial name | |
| Tityus tenuicauda Prendini, 2001 | |
Tityus tenuicauda is a species of scorpions in the family Buthidae. This species was believed to be endemic to the island of Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago. The distribution range of T. tenuicauda has been extended westward until Las Melenas, a location in the western side of Paria Peninsula National Park, Sucre State, northeastern Venezuela.[1]
References
- ↑ Pablo Cornejo-Escobar; Adolfo Borges; Stefano Bónoli; Aleikar Vásquez-Suárez; Tonio Gregoriani; Leonardo De Sousa (April 2013). "Tityus tenuicauda Prendini, 2001 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) en Venezuela. Notas taxonómicas con sinonimia, distribución e historia natural". Saber (in Spanish). 25 (1). Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela: 57–72.
- Lorenzo Prendini (2001). "Further additions to the scorpion fauna of Trinidad and Tobago" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 29 (2): 173–188. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0173:FATTSF]2.0.CO;2.