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Anatomy
Glossary
Diversity
Antiquity
Notoriety
Distribution
Life History
Ecology
Conservation
Dwindling Expertise
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Dwindling
Expertise
Surprisingly, despite their notoriety, worldwide distribution,
medical, ecological and conservation importance, scorpions are
poorly studied taxonomically. Many families and genera have never
been revised and recent inventories of scorpion diversity—even in
regions thought to be well-surveyed for scorpions (e.g. Australia,
southern Africa, and the USA)—continue to uncover new species and
distribution records. Given the paucity of active specialists and an
aging demographic, it seems unlikely that the world scorpion fauna
will become better known until more scorpion specialists are trained
and the prospects for their employment improve. Our group is
addressing this problem by coordinating existing expertise in North
America to undertake a long overdue revision of the North American
scorpion family Vaejovidae, training new specialists in the
process.
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