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_a595.46
100 1 _aBrito, Gabriel.
_eautor
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245 1 2 _aA checklist of the scorpions of Ecuador (Arachnida: Scorpiones), with notes on the distribution and medical significance of some species /
_cGabriel Brito and Adolfo Borges.
260 3 _c2015.
300 _a: 491-493 p.
520 0 _aEcuador harbors one of the most diverse Neotropical scorpion faunas, hereby updated to 47 species contained within eight genera and five families, which inhabits the “Costa” (n = 17), “Sierra” (n = 34), “Oriente” (n = 16) and “Insular” (n = 2) biogeographical regions, corresponding to the western coastal, Andean, Amazonian, and the Galapagos archipelago regions, respectively. The genus Tityus Koch, in the family Buthidae, responsible for severe/fatal accidents elsewhere in northern South America and the Amazonia, is represented in Ecuador by 16 species, including T. asthenes, which has caused fatalities in Colombia and Panama, and now in the Ecuadorian provinces of Morona Santiago and Sucumbíos. Underestimation of the medical significance of scorpion envenoming in Ecuador arises from the fact that Centruroides margaritatus (Gervais) (family Buthidae) and Teuthraustes atramentarius Simon (family Chactidae), whose venoms show low toxicity towards vertebrates, frequently envenom humans in the highly populated Guayas and Pichincha provinces. This work also updates the local scorpion faunal endemicity (74.5 %) and its geographical distribution, and reviews available medical/biochemical information on each species in the light of the increasing problem of scorpionism in the country. A proposal is hereby put forward to classify the Ecuadorian scorpions based on their potential medical importance.
546 _aInglés
653 _aScorpions
653 _aEscorpiones
653 _aEcuador
653 _aAnanteris
653 _aBrachistosternus
653 _aChactas
653 _aCentruroides
653 _aHadruroides
653 _aScorpionism
653 _aEscorpionismo
653 _aTeuthraustes
653 _aTityus
653 _aTroglotayosicus
700 1 _aBorges, Adolfo.
_eautor
773 0 _gVol. 21, No. 3 (July 2015), p. 1-17.
_tJournal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
856 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40409-015-0023-x
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_cARTICLE
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