Paracharon

Paracharon
	P. caecus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Amblypygi
Family:	Paracharontidae
Genus:	Paracharon; Hansen, 1921
Species:	P. caecus
Binomial name
	Paracharon caecus; Hansen, 1921

Paracharon is a genus of tailless whip scorpion, native to West Africa and northern South America. A single species, Paracharon caecus has been described. It is endemic to Guinea-Bissau.[1] An undescribed species is known from Colombia. It is the most basal known living member of Amblypygi, and the only living member of the Palaeoamblypygi, which also includes the genus Weygoldtina from the Carboniferous of Euramerica and Paracharonopsis from Eocene aged Indian Cambay amber. Both living species are troglobites, having no eyes, with P. caecus living in termite nests, while the undescribed Colombian species was found living in a cave.[2][3]

References

Harvey, M.S. (2003). Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. p. 31.
Miranda, Gustavo S. de; Kulkarni, Siddharth S.; Tagliatela, Jéssica; Baker, Caitlin M.; Giupponi, Alessandro P. L.; Labarque, Facundo M.; Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Rix, Michael G.; Carvalho, Leonardo S.; Fusari, Lívia Maria; Wood, Hannah M. (2022-04-27). "The rediscovery of a relict unlocks the first global phylogeny of whip spiders (Amblypygi)": 2022.04.26.489547. doi:10.1101/2022.04.26.489547. S2CID 248453237. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Garwood, Russell J.; Dunlop, Jason A.; Knecht, Brian J.; Hegna, Thomas A. (December 2017). "The phylogeny of fossil whip spiders". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 105. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0931-1. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 5399839. PMID 28431496.

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[1] Harvey, M.S. (2003). Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. p. 31.

[2] Miranda, Gustavo S. de; Kulkarni, Siddharth S.; Tagliatela, Jéssica; Baker, Caitlin M.; Giupponi, Alessandro P. L.; Labarque, Facundo M.; Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Rix, Michael G.; Carvalho, Leonardo S.; Fusari, Lívia Maria; Wood, Hannah M. (2022-04-27). "The rediscovery of a relict unlocks the first global phylogeny of whip spiders (Amblypygi)": 2022.04.26.489547. doi:10.1101/2022.04.26.489547. S2CID 248453237. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[3] Garwood, Russell J.; Dunlop, Jason A.; Knecht, Brian J.; Hegna, Thomas A. (December 2017). "The phylogeny of fossil whip spiders". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 105. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0931-1. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 5399839. PMID 28431496.