The Chactidae are a family of scorpions established by

Reginald Innes Pocock Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist. Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward ...

in 1893. They make up the

superfamily SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...

Chactoidea.

Genera

Chactidae contains the following genera: *'' Anuroctonus'' Pocock, 1893 *'' Auyantepuia'' (Gonzalez-Sponga, 1978) *'' Broteochactas'' Pocock, 1893 *'' Brotheas'' C.L. Koch, 1837 *'' Chactas'' Gervais, 1844 *'' Chactopsis'' Kraepelin, 1912 *'' Chactopsoides'' Ochoa, Rojas-Runjaic, Pinto-Da-Rocha & Prendini, 2013 *'' Guyanochactas'' Lourenco, 1998 *'' Hadrurochactas'' Pocock, 1893 *'' Megachactops'' Ochoa, Rojas-Runjaic, Pinto-Da-Rocha & Prendini, 2013 *'' Neochactas'' Soleglad & Fet, 2003 *'' Nullibrotheas'' Williams, 1974 *'' Spinochactas'' Lourenço, 2016 *'' Teuthraustes'' Simon, 1878 *'' Uroctonus'' Thorell, 1876 *'' Vachoniochactas'' Gonzalez-Sponga, 1978

References

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