Overview
Taxonomy
The Infraorder Grassatores is a member of the Suborder Laniatores. Here is the complete "parentage" of Grassatores:
- Domain: Eukaryota
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829
- Subphylum: Arachnomorpha
Heider, 1913
- Infraphylum: Cheliceriformes
- Superclass: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
Cuvier, 1812 - Arachnids
- Subclass: Dromopoda
- Order: Opiliones
Sundevall, 1833 - Harvestmen
- Suborder: Laniatores
Thorell, 1876
- Infraorder: Grassatores Kury, 2002
- Suborder: Laniatores
Thorell, 1876
- Order: Opiliones
Sundevall, 1833 - Harvestmen
- Subclass: Dromopoda
- Class: Arachnida
Cuvier, 1812 - Arachnids
- Superclass: Chelicerata
- Infraphylum: Cheliceriformes
- Subphylum: Arachnomorpha
Heider, 1913
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Infraorder Grassatores is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (22): Agoristenidae · Assamiidae · Biantidae · Cosmetidae · Cranaidae · Epedanidae · Escadabiidae · Fissiphalliidae · Gonyleptidae · Guasiniidae · Icaleptidae · Manaosbiidae · Minuidae · Oncopodidae · Phalangodidae · Podoctidae · Pyramidopidae · Samoidae · Stygnidae · Stygnommatidae · Stygnopsidae· Zalmoxidae
Families
Agoristenidae
Assamiidae
Biantidae
Cosmetidae
Cosmetidae, with around 700 species, is the second most diverse family of the Suborder Laniatores. They are distributed from Argentina to southern USA, most diverse in northern South America, Central America and Mexico. This Nearctic-Neotropical family comprises Opiliones with elaborate white/yellow/green/orange/red stripes and spots on the dorsal scutum and peculiar pedipalps strongly compressed and applied on the chelicerae. [more]
Cranaidae
Epedanidae
Escadabiidae
Fissiphalliidae
Gonyleptidae
Guasiniidae
Icaleptidae
Manaosbiidae
Minuidae
Oncopodidae
Phalangodidae
The Phalangodidae are a family of harvestman with about 20 genera and more than 100 described species, distributed in the Holarctic Region. [more]
Podoctidae
Pyramidopidae
Samoidae
Stygnidae
Stygnommatidae
Stygnopsidae
Zalmoxidae
More info about the Family Zalmoxidae may be found here.
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