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Southern Brown Scorpion
Learn the Taxonomy of the Southern Brown Scorpion
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
03/05/2011

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Domain?

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Eukarya

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Animalia

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Arthropoda

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Class?

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Arachnida

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Scorpiones

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Vaejovidae

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Vaejovis

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Vaejovis carolinianus

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Prosoma

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The first major body region of arachnids.

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Opisthosoma

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The abdomen. In the southern brown scorpion, the abdomen is further segmented into the mesosoma and the metasoma.

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Mesosoma

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In between the prosoma and the metasoma.

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Metasoma

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The posterior part of the body.

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Telson

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The very tip of the metasoma. It is kind of like a tail. In the scorpion, it is the modified stinger.

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Venom Gland

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Two of these are contained within the scorpions vesicle (in the telson).

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Pectines

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Small comb-like appendages on the ventral abdomen that function in chemosensory and tactisensory.

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Chelate Pedipalps

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The claw-like appendages of the scorpion.

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Chelate Cheliacerae

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the scorpion's jaws.

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Spermatophore

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Sac/vessel of sperm deposited by male and picked up by females.

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Ocellus (i)

 

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The simple eyes of the scorpion. Usually (2-8).

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