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Xiphosura 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 82699

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Order  
  Synonym(s): Xiphosurida
 
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2024   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumChelicerata  – cheliceriformes, quelicerado, queliceriforme  
                   ClassMerostomata  – horseshoe crabs  
                      OrderXiphosura   
    Direct Children:  
                         Suborder Limulina   
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Xiphosura   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Giribet, Gonzalo, and G. Hormiga, revisers, in Brusca, Richard C., Gonzalo Giribet, and Wendy Moore  
  Publication Date: 2022   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 24: Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Chelicerata   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Fourth Edition   
  Page(s): 801-855   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Oxford University Press   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9780197554418   
  Notes: Chapter revised by Gonzalo Giribet and Gustavo Hormiga   
  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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 Comments
       
  Comment: Xiphosura is recognized at class rank; the equivalent name at order rank is Xiphosurida  
 

 

    

 
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