Dromopoda

Dromopoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Subclass: Dromopoda
Shultz, 1990 [1]
Orders

Dromopoda is a subclass of the arachnids, including the Opiliones (harvestmen), Scorpions, Pseudoscorpions and Solifugae ("camel spiders"). The latter three are sometimes grouped as Novogenuata. However, morphological analysis showed the Dromopoda to be monophylic only when fossils were not taken into account.[2]

References

  1. ^ Jeffrey W. Shultz (1990). "Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of Arachnida". Cladistics 6 (1): 1–38. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1990.tb00523.x. 
  2. ^ Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Ward C. Wheeler & Courtney Babbitt (2002). "Phylogeny and systematic position of Opiliones: a combined analysis of chelicerate relationships using morphological and molecular data" (PDF). Cladistics 18 (1): 5–70. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2002.tb00140.x. PMID 14552352. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/pdfs/wheeler/Giribet_etal2002.pdf.