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Scorpius
| Description | Scorpius is one of the constellations of the zodiac and is located in the Southern celestial hemisphere. Its name is Latin for scorpion, and its symbol is (Unicode ♏). Scorpius is one of the 48 constellations identified by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the second century. It is an ancient constellation that pre-dates the Greeks. It lies between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east. It is a large constellation located in the southern hemisphere near the center of the Milky Way. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpius, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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| Rank | genus | |||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Scorpius | |||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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| Scientific Name | Scorpius Ehrenberg, 1829 | |||||||
| Name Published In | Verh. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 1829 | |||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpius |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Scorpius algeriens species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Verh. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 1829 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
