Overview
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Taxonomy
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The Family Malaconothridae is a member of the Superfamily Crotonioidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Malaconothridae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Arachnomorpha
Heider, 1913
- Infraphylum: Cheliceriformes
- Superclass: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
Cuvier, 1812 - Arachnids
- Subclass: Acari
Leach, 1817 - Mites and Ticks
- Superorder: Acariformes
Zakhvatkin, 1952 - Mitelike Mites
- Order: Oribatida
van der Hammen, 1968
- Suborder: Desmonomata
Woolley, 1973
- Superfamily: Crotonioidea
Thorell, 1876
- Family: Malaconothridae Berlese, 1916
- Superfamily: Crotonioidea
Thorell, 1876
- Suborder: Desmonomata
Woolley, 1973
- Order: Oribatida
van der Hammen, 1968
- Superorder: Acariformes
Zakhvatkin, 1952 - Mitelike Mites
- Subclass: Acari
Leach, 1817 - Mites and Ticks
- Class: Arachnida
Cuvier, 1812 - Arachnids
- Superclass: Chelicerata
- Infraphylum: Cheliceriformes
- Subphylum: Arachnomorpha
Heider, 1913
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Malaconothridae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (4): Fossonothrus · Malaconothrus · Trimalaconothrus · Zeanothrus
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 177 species and subspecies in the Family Malaconothridae.
Genera
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Fossonothrus
Malaconothrus
Trimalaconothrus
Zeanothrus
More info about the Genus Zeanothrus may be found here.
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