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Dromopoda

 
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Dromopoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Subclass: Dromopoda
Shultz, 1990
Orders

Opiliones
Pseudoscorpiones
Scorpiones
Solifugae

Dromopoda is a subclass of the arachnids, including the Opiliones (harvestmen), Scorpions, Pseudoscorpions and Solifugae ("camel spiders"). The latter three are sometimes grouped as Novogenuata.

However, morphological analysis showed the Dromopoda to be monophylic only when fossils were not taken into account (Giribet et al. 2002).

References

  • Shultz, J.W. (1990): Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of Arachnida. Cladistics 6: 1-38.
  • Giribet, G., Edgecombe, G.D., Wheeler, W.C. & Babbitt, C. (2002): Phylogeny and systematic position of Opiliones: a combined analysis of chelicerate relationships using morphological and molecular data. Cladistics 18: 5-70.



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