Odontobuthus Vachon 1950
Creators: name: Lourenco, Wilson
name: Duhem, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: The genus<i> Odontobuthus</i> probably has a distribution limited to the central and northwestern regions of Iran, to Pakistan and India. Its presence in Iraq was only recently confirmed with the description of<i> Odontobuthus bidentatus</i> Lourenço &amp; Pézier, 2002. The different localities indicated for<i> O. bidentatus</i>, correspond closely with the pattern of distribution already observed by Sissom and Fet (1998), for<i> Compsobuthus matthiesseni</i> (Birula, 1905). This species is widely distributed within the drainage systems of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Such a pattern of distribution applies in sites where the altitude ranges on average from 150 to 200 m. In contrast, at the sites where<i> Odontobuthus doriae</i> (Thorell, 1876) was collected, the altitude is much greater, ranging on average from 1000 to 3000 m. In their study of the genus<i> Buthotus</i> (=<i> Hottentotta</i>), Vachon and Stockmann (1968) recognized and defined several lineages and sub-lineages of<i> Hottentotta</i>. Both authors, as well as Vachon and Kinzelbach (1987), suggested that the African, Saharo-Sindian and Indian lineages might be different. In fact, several species originally thought to belong to the Indian lineage are currently placed in the genus<i> Mesobuthus</i> which is distributed from the Balkans to China (see also Tikader and Bastawade 1983). Fet and Lowe (2000) pointed out that the relationships of<i> Mesobuthus</i> to other genera, and in
description: Published as part of <i>Lourenco, Wilson &amp; Duhem, Bernard, 2009, Saharo-Sindian buthid scorpions; description of two new genera and species from Occidental Sahara and Afghanistan, pp. 37-54 in ZooKeys 14</i> on page 48, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.14.212, http://zenodo.org/record/576470
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