| Journal: | The journal of venomous animals and toxins |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000298692 |
| ISSN: | 0104-7930 |
| Authors: | Quiroga, M1 Sousa, L. de2 Parrilla Alvarez, P |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad de Oriente, Escuela de Medicina, Ciudad Bolívar, Bolívar. Venezuela 2Universidad de Oriente, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui. Venezuela |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Volumen: | 6 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 99-117 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | This paper describes a new species of scorpion of the Tityus genus, Tityus caripitensis (Scorpionida: Buthidae). This species can be found in Caripito, Bolívar municipality of Monagas State, Venezuela. The number of species of Tityus genus in Venezuela has increased to 37 with the inclusion of Tityus caripitensis. A diagnosis of the most significant morphological characteristics of both males and females of this new species, which has been causing serious envenomings in the Bolívar and Punceres municipalities, has been carried out |
| Disciplines: | Biología |
| Keyword: | Quelicerados, Taxonomía y sistemática, Nuevas especies, Alacranes, Descripción taxonómica, Tityus caripitensis, Buthidae, Venezuela |
| Keyword: | Biology, Chelicerata, Taxonomy and systematics, New species, Scorpions, Taxonomic description, Tityus caripitensis, Buthidae, Venezuela |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver HTML) |
