Family URODACIDAE
Compiler and date details
Mark S. Harvey & Erich S. Volschenk, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Introduction
The Urodacidae consist of a single genus, Urodacus Peters, confined to mainland Australia where 19 species were recognised by Koch (1977). The Urodacidae were recently elevated from a subfamily of the Scorpionidae (Prendini 2000), and suggested to represent the sister-group to the Heteroscorpionidae from Madagascar.
General References
Koch, L.E. 1977. The taxonomy, geographic distribution and evolutionary radiation of Australo-Papuan scorpions. Records of the Western Australian Museum 5: 83-367
Prendini, L. 2000. Phylogeny and classification of the superfamily Scorpionoidea Latreille, 1802 (Chelicerata, Scorpiones): an exemplar approach. Cladistics 16: 1-78