Mexican Cave Scorpion (IMAGE)

American Museum of Natural History

Mexican Cave Scorpion

Caption

Typhochactas mitchelli is among the smallest known scorpions and part of the Typhlochactidae family of cave scorpions, endemic to Mexico. Like all scorpions, it fluoresces in long-wave ultraviolet light as this image of its ventral side highlights.

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V. Vignoli

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