Pettalus

Familia: Pettalidae
Genus: Pettalus
Species: P. brevicauda – P. cimiciformis – P. lampetides – P. thwaitesi

Pettalus Thorell, 1876: 469.

Type species: Cyphophthalmus cimiciformis Pickard-Cambridge, 1875, by original designation.

Gender: masculine

None.

• Thorell, T.T.T. 1876. Sopra alcuni opilioni (Phalangidea) d'Europa e dell'Asia occidentale con un quadro dei generi Europei de quest'ordine. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genoa. (Series 1), 8: 452–508. BHL Reference page. 
• Pickard-Cambridge, O. 1875c. On three new and curious forms of Arachnida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 16: 383–390, pl. xii. Reference page. 

• Sharma, P., Karunarathna, I. & Giribet, G. 2009. On the endemic Sri Lankan genus Pettalus (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) with a description of a new species and a discussion of its diversity. Journal of Arachnology 37(1): 60–67. DOI: 10.1636/H08-56.1 Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M.A. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page.  [accessed on January 16, 2024]

• BHL bibliography
• Pettalus – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Pettalus.
• ION

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