Pettalidae

Familia:
Genera: Aoraki – Archaeopurcellia – Austropurcellia – Chileogovea – Karripurcellia – Manangotria – Neopurcellia – Parapurcellia – Pettalus – Purcellia – Rakaia

Synonomised genera: Speleosiro – Milipurcellia

• Shear, 1980: 25.
  • Type genus: Pettalus Thorell, 1876 by original designation.
  • Stem: Pettal–

No.

• Shear, W.A. 1980. A review of the Cyphophthalmi of the United States and Mexico, with a proposed reclassification of the suborder (Arachnida, Opiliones). American Museum Novitates 2705: 1–34. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Thorell, T.T.T. 1876. Sopra alcuni opilioni (Phalangidea) d'Europa e dell'Asia occidentale con un quadro dei generi Europei de quest'ordine. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genoa. (Series 1), 8: 452–508. BHL Reference page. 

• de Bivort, B.L., Clouse, R.M. & Giribet, G. 2010. A morphometrics-based phylogeny of the temperate Gondwanan mite harvestmen (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(4): 294–309. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00562.x Reference page. 
• de Bivort, B.L. & Giribet, G. 2010. A systematic revision of the South African Pettalidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) based on a combined analysis of discrete and continuous morphological characters with the description of seven new species. Invertebrate Systematics 24(4): 371–406. DOI: 10.1071/IS10015 Reference page. 
• Boyer, S.L. & Giribet, G. 2007. A new model Gondwanan taxon: systematics and biogeography of the harvestman family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi), with a taxonomic revision of genera from Australia and New Zealand. Cladistics 23: 337–361. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00149.x Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Boyer, S.L. & Giribet, G. 2009. Welcome back New Zealand: regional biogeography and Gondwanan origin of three endemic genera of mite harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi). Journal of Biogeography 36: 1084–1099. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02092.x Reference page. 
• Forster, R.R. 1948. The sub-order Cyphophthalmi Simon in New Zealand. Dominion Museum Records in Entomology 1: 79–119. Reference page. 
• Giribet, G. 2003. Karripurcellia, a new pettalid genus (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) from Western Australia, with a cladistic analysis of the family Pettalidae. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 387–406. DOI: 10.1071/IS02014 Reference page. 
• Giribet, G. & Boyer, S.L. 2010. ‘Moa’s Ark’ or ‘Goodbye Gondwana’: is the origin of New Zealand’s terrestrial invertebrate fauna ancient, recent, or both? Invertebrate Systematics 24: 1–8. DOI: 10.1071/IS10009 Reference page. 
• Schwentner, M. & Giribet, G. 2018. Phylogeography, species delimitation and population structure of a Western Australian short-range endemic mite harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones: Pettalidae: Karripurcellia). Evolutionary Systematics 2: 81–87. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.2.25274 Reference page. 
• Šťáhlavský, F., Boyer, S.L., Harvey, M.S. & Giribet, G. 2012. First cytogenetic study of a member of the harvestman family Pettalidae (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi). Australian Journal of Entomology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2012.00870.x Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M.A. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page.  [accessed on January 11, 2024]

• BHL bibliography
• Pettalidae – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Pettalidae.
• ION

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