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Xiphosura 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1092024

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Class  
  Common Name(s): horseshoe crabs [English]
  
  Valid Name: Xiphosura 
 
       
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  Current Standing: invalid - other, see comments   
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: unknown   
  Latest Record Review: 2019   
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Giribet, G., and G. Hormiga, revisers, in Brusca, Richard C., Wendy Moore, and Stephen M. Schuster  
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 24: Phylum Arthropoda: The Chelicerata   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Third Edition   
  Page(s): 911-966   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-1605353753   
  Notes: Chapter revised by guest contributors Gonzalo Giribet and Gustavo Hormiga   
  Reference for: Xiphosura   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Giribet, Gonzalo  
  Publication Date: 2018   
  Article/Chapter Title: Current views on chelicerate phylogeny - A tribute to Peter Weygoldt   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zoologischer Anzeiger, vol. 273   
  Page(s): 7-13   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0044-5231   
  Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2018.01.004   
  Reference for: Xiphosura   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lamsdell, James C.  
  Publication Date: 2015   
  Article/Chapter Title: Horseshoe crab phylogeny and independent colonizations of fresh water: ecological invasion as a driver for morphological innovation   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Palaeontology, vol. 59, no. 2   
  Page(s): 181-194   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1475-4983   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/pala.12220   
  Reference for: Xiphosura   
       

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  Comment: Xiphosuras changed from a class to a subclass in ITIS in order to accomodate class Euchelicerata (Arachnida + Xiphosura), per publications such as G. Giribet & G. Hormiga in Brusca et al. (2016), and G. Giribet (2018)  
 

 

    

 
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