Urodacus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Urodacus | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Urodacus yaschenkoi photographed in the Riverland, South Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | Urodacidae |
| Genus: | Urodacus Peters, 1861[1] |
| Type species | |
| Urodacus novaehollandiae Peters, 1861 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
Urodacus is a genus of scorpion belonging to the family Urodacidae. It was described by German naturalist Wilhelm Peters in 1861. The type species is U. novaehollandiae.[1] Its species are native to Australia, and dig burrows.[2] The genus was placed in its own family in 2000. Before this, the group had been a subfamily Urodacinae within the family Scorpionidae.[3] There are likely many undescribed, cryptic species within the genus.[4]
