The Chactidae are a family of
scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs, and are easily recognized by a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always endi ...
s established by
Reginald Innes Pocock
Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist.
Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edwar ...
in 1893. They make up the
superfamily
SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...
Chactoidea.
Genera
Chactidae contains the following genera:
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Anuroctonus''
Pocock, 1893
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Auyantepuia''
(Gonzalez-Sponga, 1978)
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Broteochactas''
Pocock, 1893
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Brotheas''
C.L. Koch, 1837
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Chactas''
Gervais, 1844
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Chactopsis''
Kraepelin, 1912
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Chactopsoides''
Ochoa, Rojas-Runjaic, Pinto-Da-Rocha & Prendini, 2013
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Guyanochactas''
Lourenco, 1998
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Hadrurochactas''
Pocock, 1893
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Megachactops''
Ochoa, Rojas-Runjaic, Pinto-Da-Rocha & Prendini, 2013
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Neochactas''
Soleglad & Fet, 2003
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Nullibrotheas''
Williams, 1974
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Spinochactas''
Lourenço, 2016
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Teuthraustes''
Simon, 1878
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Uroctonus
''Uroctonus'' is a genus of forest scorpions in the family Vaejovidae
Vaejovidae is a family of scorpions, comprising 25 genera and 227 species, found in North America. The species of the genus are found in Mexico and the southern United St ...
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Thorell, 1876
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Vachoniochactas''
Gonzalez-Sponga, 1978
References
Scorpion families
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