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Twelve species of scorpions, belonging to three families and seven genera, have been recorded from the Cuatro Cienegas Basin (CCB). Two are considered endemic, but this might be due to poor sampling efforts in other areas of the state of Coahuila; the other ten species are widely distributed in the Chihuahuan Desert and are not threatened at the time. However, there is concern about the populations inside the Basin because the increasing aridification is causing a loss in primary productivity, which in turn has an impact on the arthropods that scorpions feed upon.
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Field work in the CCB in 2006 was financed by the REVSYS project awarded to Dr. Lorenzo Prendini (National Science Foundation grant DEB 0413453). Field assistance by David Sissom, Kari McWest, Brent Hendrixson, Steven Grant, Abigail Jaimes, Milagros Cordova, Edmundo Gonzáles, and Jesús Ballesteros was deeply appreciated. The photographs were taken in the field by Kari McWest, and his permission to use them is greatly acknowledged. Collections were done under Scientific Collector Permit FAUT-0175 from SEMARNAT to O. F. Francke; permission to camp and collect in the CCB was kindly granted by Dean Hendrickson on behalf of the Desert Fishes Council. Finally, I thank the editors of this book for inviting me to participate.
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Francke B., O.F. (2019). Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin. In: Álvarez, F., Ojeda, M. (eds) Animal Diversity and Biogeography of the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin. Cuatro Ciénegas Basin: An Endangered Hyperdiverse Oasis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11262-2_4
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