Briggsus is a genus of armoured harvestmen in the family Cladonychiidae. There are about five described species in Briggsus, found in the coastal forests of Oregon and Washington.[1][2][3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Family: | Cladonychiidae |
| Genus: | Briggsus Özdikmen & Demir, 2008 |
Species
editThese five species belong to the genus Briggsus:
- Briggsus bilobatus (Briggs, 1971)
- Briggsus clavatus (Briggs, 1971)
- Briggsus flavescens (Briggs, 1971)
- Briggsus hamatus (Briggs, 1971)
- Briggsus pacificus (Briggs, 1971)
References
edit- ^ "Briggsus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
- ^ "Briggsus". GBIF. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
- ^ "Briggsus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
- ^ Derkarabetian, Shahan; Starrett, James; Tsurusaki, Nobuo; Ubick, Darrell; et al. (2018). "A stable phylogenomic classification of Travunioidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) based on sequence capture of ultraconserved elements". ZooKeys (760): 1–36. doi:10.3897/zookeys.760.24937. PMC 5986891. PMID 29872361.
Further reading
edit- Derkarabetian, Shahan; Steinmann, David B.; Hedin, Marshal (2010). "Repeated and time-correlated morphological convergence in cave-dwelling harvestmen (Opiliones, Laniatores) from montane western North America". PLOS ONE. 5 (5): e10388. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...510388D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010388. PMC 2866537. PMID 20479884.
- Giribet, Gonzalo; Vogt, Lars; González, Abel P.érez; Sharma, Prashant; et al. (2010). "A multilocus approach to harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) phylogeny with emphasis on biogeography and the systematics of Laniatores". Cladistics. 26 (4): 408–437. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00296.x. S2CID 84058161.
- Kury, Adriano B.; Mendes, Amanda Cruz; Souza, Daniele R. (2014). "World Checklist of Opiliones species (Arachnida). Part 1: Laniatores - Travunioidea and Triaenonychoidea". Biodiversity Data Journal (2): e4094. doi:10.3897/BDJ.2.e4094. PMC 4238074. PMID 25425936.
- Özdikmen, H.üseyin; Demir, Hakan (2008). "New family and genus name, Briggsidae nom. nov. and Briggsus nom. nov., for the harvestmen (Opiliones: Laniatores)". Munis Entomology & Zoology. 3: 174–176. ISSN 1306-3022.
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