The remarkable scorpion diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes and description of a new species of Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)

Abstract. A new species of Tityus, subgenus Atreus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) is described from the Province of Pichincha in the Ecuadorian Andes. Ecuadorian scorpion fauna remains one of the less well studied among those of South America. Nevertheless, some comments are addressed about its remarkable d...

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Autores principales: Lourenço, Wilson R., Ythier, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23794920
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.307.5334
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spelling pubmed-36890602013-06-21 The remarkable scorpion diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes and description of a new species of Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) Lourenço, Wilson R. Ythier, Eric Zookeys Article Abstract. A new species of Tityus, subgenus Atreus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) is described from the Province of Pichincha in the Ecuadorian Andes. Ecuadorian scorpion fauna remains one of the less well studied among those of South America. Nevertheless, some comments are addressed about its remarkable diversity and high level of endemic elements. Pensoft Publishers 2013-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3689060/ /pubmed/23794920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.307.5334 Text en Wilson R. Lourenço, Eric Ythier http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The remarkable scorpion diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes and description of a new species of Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)
title The remarkable scorpion diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes and description of a new species of Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)
title_full The remarkable scorpion diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes and description of a new species of Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)
title_fullStr The remarkable scorpion diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes and description of a new species of Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)
title_full_unstemmed The remarkable scorpion diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes and description of a new species of Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)
title_short The remarkable scorpion diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes and description of a new species of Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)
title_sort remarkable scorpion diversity in the ecuadorian andes and description of a new species of tityus c. l. koch, 1836 (scorpiones, buthidae)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23794920
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.307.5334
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