Coastal Burrowing Scorpion Urodacus hartmeyeri Kraepelin, 1908
Fauna Portal species: 14933
Diagnosis
(after L.E. Koch 1977): Distinguished from the hoplurus species-group by the movable finger having one row of central teeth and the legs having the terminal claws markedly unequal. Distinguished from U. yaschenkoi by the tail segments being moderately long to long, vesicle being smaller, aculeus being longer, hand being somewhat flat in male and moderately round in female.
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1977): The taxonomy, geographic distribution and evolutionary radiation of Australo-Papuan scorpions. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 5: 83 - 367WEB