Opiliones

Opiliones; Temporal range: 410–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Devonian – Holocene
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Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Cless:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones; Sundevall, 1833
Suborders
	Cyphophthalmi; Eupnoi; Dyspnoi; Laniatores; Tetrophthalmi;
Diversity
	5 suborders, > 6,650 species

Opiliones (Laitin opilio, "shepherd"; umwhile Phalangida) are an order o arachnids commonly kent as harvestmen. As o December 2011^[update], ower 6,500 species o harvestmen hae been discovered worldwide,^[1] altho the tot nummer o extant species mey exceed 10,000.^[2]

References

↑ Adriano B. Kury (2011). Z.-Q. Zhang (ed.). "Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4138: 112–114. |chapter= ignored (help)
↑ Glauco Machado, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha & Gonzalo Giribet (2007). "What are harvestmen?". In Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Glauco Machado & Gonzalo Giribet (ed.). Harvestmen: the Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press. pp. 1–13. ISBN 0-674-02343-9.

[1] Adriano B. Kury (2011). Z.-Q. Zhang (ed.). "Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 4138: 112–114. |chapter= ignored (help)

[pinto-2] Glauco Machado, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha & Gonzalo Giribet (2007). "What are harvestmen?". In Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Glauco Machado & Gonzalo Giribet (ed.). Harvestmen: the Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press. pp. 1–13. ISBN 0-674-02343-9.

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