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Acuclavella Leonardi Female - ZooKeys-311-019-g005-bottom
''Acuclavella'' is a genus of thorn harvestmen in the family Ischyropsalididae, found in the Pacific Northwest. There are about seven described species in ''Acuclavella''. ''Acuclavella'' was formerly a member of the family Ceratolasmatidae, but was moved to Ischyropsalididae, along with Ceratolasmatidae which became the subfamily Ceratolasmatinae. Species These seven species belong to the genus ''Acuclavella'': * ''Acuclavella cosmetoides'' Shear, 1986 * ''Acuclavella leonardi'' Richart and Hedin, 2013 * ''Acuclavella makah'' Richart and Hedin, 2013 * ''Acuclavella merickeli'' Shear, 1986 * ''Acuclavella quattuor'' Shear, 1986 * ''Acuclavella sheari'' Richart and Hedin, 2013 * ''Acuclavella shoshone'' Shear, 1986 References Further reading * External links * Harvestmen Taxa named by William Shear {{opiliones-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shear
William Albert Shear (born 1942) is Trinkle Professor Emeritus at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia. He is a spider and myriapod expert who has published more than 200 scientific articles primarily on harvestman and millipede taxonomy. He was born in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, completed his undergraduate work at College of Wooster, masters at the University of New Mexico, and PhD at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University under the supervision of Herbert Walter Levi. While at Harvard, Shear completed a revision of the millipede family Cleidogonidae and reclassification of the order Chordeumatida. He is an expert in Paleozoic arthropods, and has published several papers on fossil millipedes, centipedes, and spiders. A number of species are named after him, including ''Hypochilus sheari'' Platnick, 1987 and ''Brachoria sheari'' Marek, 2010. Shear is a lifetime appointee as Senior Scientific Associate at the Virginia Museum of Natural History and is a research assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
