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Charon grayi
Charon grayi from Sulawesi on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Amblypygi
Family:	Charontidae
Genus:	Charon
Species:	C. grayi
Binomial name
Charon grayi (Gervais, 1842)
Synonyms
Phrynus grayi Gervais, 1842 Charon hoeveni Karsch, 1880 Charon beccarii Thorell, 1888 Charon papuanus Thorell, 1888 Charon subterraneus Thorell, 1888

Charon grayi, the giant whip-spider, is a species of whip spider found in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Palau. This whip-spider usually lives in caves.

References

• Gervais, 1842 : Entomologie. L'Institut, Journal Universel des Sciences et des Sociétés Savantes en France et a l'Étranger, 1ere Section, vol. 10, p. 76.

External links

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