Talk:Arizona bark scorpion

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                                    all is fake  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.171.93.79 (talk) 14:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two species or one?

This article implies that C. exilicauda and C. sculpturatus are synonymous. Is this the consensus among arachnologists? I see that Valdez-Cruz et al. report that their results "strongly support the conclusion that C. exilicauda and C. sculpturatus are in fact two distinct species of scorpions".[1] Gdr 07:51:18, 2005-08-03 (UTC)

  1. ^  Valdez-Cruz NA, Davila S, Licea A, Corona M, Zamudio FZ, Garcia-Valdes J, Boyer L, Possani LD. Biochemical, genetic and physiological characterization of venom components from two species of scorpions: Centruroides exilicauda Wood and Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing. Biochimie. 2004 Jun;86(6):387-96.

Hi,

Yes, Centruroides sculpturatus (the 'sculptured scorpion', a fitting name if you've observed them with any real frequency, as they sometimes seem as if they were 'chiseled' out of the wood they are on...) is the deprecated name for Centruroides exilicauda. On a side note, exilicauda is Latin for 'slender tail' (exili, and 'cauda'). Also, the original Genus name was to be Centrurus (IIRC), however that was already taken in the nomenclature, hence, Centruroides (roughly means "like centrurus" or thereabouts).

I have some pics and a little more info on my page at www.exilicauda.com, including a caresheet if you, like myself, happen to have vast numbers of them.

HTH,


Jason Berry -- http://www.netspionage.com/jmb_ns_pubkey.asc