Neoscotolemon spinifer

Synonyms

• Phalangodes spinifera Packard, 1888: 52. Protonym. Banks, 1893: 151.
• Scotolemon spinifera (Packard, 1888) Comb. nov.; Banks, 1901: 672; Scotolemon spinigera Banks, 1904: 140 (as subsequent misspelling).
• Rula spinifera (Packard, 1888) Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945: 62.
• Stygnomma spinifera (Packard, 1888) Goodnight & Goodnight, 1951: 9; including Stygnomma spinifera spinifera (Packard, 1888) Goodnight & Goodnight, 1951: 9 [under Phalangodidae]; Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953: 177; Stygnomma spiniferum (implicit), plus Stygnomma spiniferum spiniferum (Packard, 1888); Kury, 2003: 236. (mandatory correction to neuter)
• Neoscotolemon spinifer (Packard, 1888); Pérez-González, Mamani & Proud, 2025: 137.

Heterotypic synonyms:

• Citranus marquesas Goodnight & Goodnight 1942: 4. Protonym.
  • Type species: Citranus marquesas Citranus marquesas Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942; by original designation.

Primary references

• Banks, N. 1893. The Phalangida Mecostethi of the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 20: 149–152. BHL Reference page. 
• Banks, N. 1901. Synopses of North-American invertebrates. XVI. The Phalangida. The American Naturalist 35(416): 669–679. Reference page. 
• Banks, N. 1904. The Arachnida of Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 56(1): 120–147. Reference page. 
• Packard, A.S. 1888. The cave fauna of North America, with remarks on the anatomy of the brain and origin of the blind species. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 4: 1–156. BHL Reference page. 
• Goodnight, C.J. & Goodnight, M.L. 1945. Dos nuevos opiliones de cavernas de Cuba. Ciencia; Revista Hispano-Americana de Ciencias Puras y Aplicadas 6(2): 62–64. Reference page. 
• Goodnight, C.J. & Goodnight, M.L., 1951. The genus Stygnomma (Phalangida). American Museum Novitates 1491: 1–20. Reference page. 
• Goodnight, C.J. & Goodnight, M.L., 1953b. Taxonomic recognition of variation in Opiliones. Systematic Zoology 2(4): 173–179. Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B. 2003. Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 1: 1-337. Full article. Reference page. 
• Pérez-González, A., Mamani, C.V. & Proud, D.N. 2025. On the genus Neoscotolemon (Opiliones: Laniatores: Samooidea incertae sedis) with the description of one new species. Zootaxa 5563(1): 109–165. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.11 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M.A. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page.  [accessed on January 12, 2025]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Neoscotolemon spinifer – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Neoscotolemon spinifer.
• ION

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