bark scorpions

Centruroides

Summary 2

Centruroides is a genus of scorpions belonging to the family Buthidae. Several North American species are known by the common vernacular name bark scorpion. Numerous species are extensively found throughout the southern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Antilles and northern South America. Some are known for their interesting patterning or large size (among Buthidae); most if not all fluoresce strongly under ultraviolet illumination, except after moulting. They contain several highly venomous species, and fatalities are...

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:482
Specimens with Sequences:174
Specimens with Barcodes:169
Species:30
Species With Barcodes:22
Public Records:85
Public Species:14
Public BINs:20

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  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centruroides
  3. (c) Barcode of Life Data Systems, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/31573417

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