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Centruroides nigrimanus

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Centruroides nigrimanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Scorpiones
Family: Buthidae
Genus: Centruroides
Species:
C. nigrimanus
Binomial name
Centruroides nigrimanus
Pocock, 1898[1]

Centruroides nigrimanus is a species of scorpion in the family Buthidae. This species is endemic of Mexico (type from Oaxaca). It occurs in the Mexican states of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero. [Pocock 1998 indicated a juvenile specimen from Honduras might be this species, but this has never been substantiated, and unlikely]

Original publication

  • Pocock, 1898 : Descriptions of some new Scorpions from Central and South America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, vol. 1, p. 384-394 (texte intégral).

References

  1. ^ "Genus Centruroides Marx,1890". Mes Scorpions. 26 October 2005. Retrieved 8 August 2013.