Paracharontidae

Paracharontidae is an arachnid family within the order Amblypygi (tailless whip scorpions).[2] Paracharontidae and the extinct Weygoldtinidae from the Carboniferous form the suborder Paleoamblypygi, the sister group to the remaining Amblypygi.[3] The family contains two genera: The extinct Paracharonopsis Engel and Grimaldi, 2014 from the Eocene (Ypresian) aged Cambay amber of India,[4] and Paracharon, with two extant species: Paracharon caecus Hansen, 1921 from Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, and an undescribed species from Colombia in northern South America.[5] The placement of Paracharonopsis within the family has been questioned by some authors, who suggest that the genus may be more closely related to Euamblypygi.[6]

Paracharontidae
Temporal range:
Paracharon caecus
Diagram of Paracharonopsis cambayensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Amblypygi
Suborder: Paleoamblypygi
Family: Paracharontidae
Weygoldt, 1996[1]
Genera

References
  1. Weygoldt, P. (1996). Evolutionary morphology of whip spiders: towards a phylogenetic system (Chelicerata: Arachnida: Amblypygi). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolution Research 34: 185–202.
  2. Harvey, M.S. 2003. Order Amblypygi. pp. 59–99 in, Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. Collingwood, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing. 385 pp.
  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.
  4. Engel, Michael S.; Grimaldi, David A (2014-08-06). "Whipspiders (Arachnida: Amblypygi) in amber from the Early Eocene and mid-Cretaceous, including maternal care". Novitates Paleoentomologicae (9): 1. doi:10.17161/np.v0i9.4765. ISSN 2329-5880.
  5. 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.; Sharma, Prashant P. (27 April 2022). "The rediscovery of a relict unlocks the first global phylogeny of whip spiders (Amblypygi)".
  6. Haug, Carolin; Haug, Joachim T. (September 2021). "The fossil record of whip spiders: the past of Amblypygi". PalZ. 95 (3): 387–412. doi:10.1007/s12542-021-00552-z. ISSN 0031-0220.
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