Opiliones
Opiliones (Laitin opilio, "shepherd"; umwhile Phalangida) are an order o arachnids commonly kent as harvestmen. As o December 2011[update], ower 6,500 species o harvestmen hae been discovered worldwide,[1] altho the tot nummer o extant species mey exceed 10,000.[2]
| Opiliones | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Cless: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones Sundevall, 1833 |
| Suborders | |
| Diversity | |
| 5 suborders, > 6,650 species | |
References eedit
- ↑ Adriano B. Kury (2011). Z.-Q. Zhang (ed.). "Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4138: 112–114.
|chapter=ignored (help) - ↑ Glauco Machado, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha & Gonzalo Giribet (2007). "What are harvestmen?". In Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Glauco Machado & Gonzalo Giribet (ed.). Harvestmen: the Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press. pp. 1–13. ISBN 0-674-02343-9.