Paruroctonus soda
| Paruroctonus soda | |
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| Adult female Paruroctonus soda with 51 newly born juveniles | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | Vaejovidae |
| Genus: | Paruroctonus |
| Species: | P. soda
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| Paruroctonus soda | |
Paruroctonus soda is a species of scorpion in the genus Paruroctonus. It lives in the deserts of Southern California where it is found in dry lake beds and playas of Soda Lake and Koehn Lake. P. soda is an alkali sink specialist species.[1]
Discovery
[edit]Paruroctonus soda was described alongside Paruroctonus conclusus, both species having come to the attention of Prakrit Jain and Harper Forbes when observations uploaded to iNaturalist could not be assigned to a known species. They were assisted by Lauren Esposito of the California Academy of Sciences.
The species was named after Soda Lake, Southern California where it lives.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "High school students describe two new species of scorpions". phys.org. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
- ^ Jain, Prakrit; Forbes, Harper; Esposito, Lauren A. (2022-08-15). "Two new alkali-sink specialist species of Paruroctonus Werner 1934 (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae) from central California". ZooKeys (1117): 139–188. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1117.76872. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 9848917.
- ^ Source, News Staff / (2022-08-15). "Two New Scorpion Species Discovered in California | Sci.News". Sci.News: Breaking Science News. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
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