Lorenzo Prendini

Lorenzo Prendini, U.S. arachnologist.

• Scorpion Systematics Research Group, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, U.S.A.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 13 taxon names authored by Lorenzo Prendini

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2011

• Prendini, L. 2011. Order Scorpiones C.L. Koch, 1850. Pp 115–117 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  Zootaxa 3148: 115–117. PDF Reference page. 
• Prendini, L. 2011. Solifugae Sundevall, 1833. P 118 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Reference page. 
• Prendini, L. 2011. Order Palpigradi Thorell, 1888. P 121 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Prendini, L. 2011. Order Ricinulei Thorell, 1876. P 122 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Reference page. 
• Prendini, L. 2011. Order Amblypygi Thorell, 1883. P 154 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Prendini, L. 2011. Thelyphonida Latreille, 1804. P 155 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . (PDF) Reference page. 
• Prendini, L. 2011. Order Schizomida Petrunkevitch, 1945. P 156 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . (PDF) Reference page. 

2012

• Engelbrecht, I. & Prendini, L. 2012. Cryptic diversity of South African trapdoor spiders: three new species of Stasimopus Simon, 1892 (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae), and redescription of Stasimopus robertsi Hewitt, 1910. American Museum Novitates 3732: 1-42. DOI: 10.1206/3732.2. . Reference page. 

2014

• Tahir, H.M. & Prendini, L. 2014. Redescription of Heterometrus latimanus and confirmation of the genus Heterometrus (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae) in Pakistan. American Museum novitates, (3805) DOI: 10.1206/3805.1 Reference page. 
• Tahir, H.M., Navidpour, S. & Prendini, L. 2014: First reports of Razianus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Iraq and Pakistan, descriptions of two new species, and redescription of Razianus zarudnyi. American Museum novitates, (3806) DOI: 10.1206/3806.1 Reference page. 

2015

• Talal, S., Tesler, I., Sivan, J., Ben-Shlomo, R, Tahir, H.M., Prendini, L., Snir, S. & Gefen, E. 2015. Scorpion speciation in the Holy Land: Multilocus phylogeography corroborates diagnostic differences in morphology and burrowing behavior among Scorpio subspecies and justifies recognition as phylogenetic, ecological and biological species. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 91: 226–237. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.028.

2016

• Prendini, L. 2016. Redefinition and Systematic Revision of the East African Scorpion Genus Pandinoides (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae) With Critique of the Taxonomy of Pandinus, Sensu Lato. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 407: 1–66. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-407.1.1 Reference page. 

2017

• Wheeler, W.C., Coddington, J.A., Crowley, L.M., Dimitrov, D.S., Goloboff, P.A., Griswold, C.E., Hormiga, Prendini, L., Ramírez, M.J., Sierwald, P., Almeida-Silva, L.M., Álvarez-Padilla, Arnedo, M.A., Benavides Silva, L.R., Benjamin, S.P., Bond, J.S., Grismado, C.J., Hasan, E., Hedin, M., Izquierdo, M.A., Labarque, F.M., Ledford, J., Lopardo, L., Maddison, W.P., Miller, J.A., Piacentini, L.N., Platnick, N.I., Polotow, D., Silva-Dávila, D., Scharff, N., Szűts, T., Ubick, D., Vink, C.J., Wood, H.M. & Zhang, J.X. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33: 574–616. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12182 . Reference page. 

2018

• Miranda, G.S., Giupponi, A.P. de L., Prendini, L. & Scharff, N. 2018. Weygoldtia, a new genus of Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi) with a reappraisal of the genera in the family. Zoologischer Anzeiger 273: 23–32. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2018.02.003 Reference page. 

2019

• Ramírez, M.J., Grismado, C.J., Ubick, D., Ovtsharenko, V.I., Cushing, P.E., Platnick, N.I., Wheeler, W.C., Prendini, L., Crowley, L.M. & Horner, N.V. 2019. Myrmecicultoridae, a New Family of Myrmecophilic Spiders from the Chihuahuan Desert (Araneae: Entelegynae). American Museum Novitates 3930: 1-24. Reference page. 
• Monjaraz-Ruedas, R., Prendini, L. & Francke, O.F. 2019. Systematics of the short-tailed whipscorpion genus Stenochrus Chamberlin, 1922 (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae), with descriptions of six new genera and five new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 435: 1–91. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.435.1.1 Reference page. 

2020

• Prendini, L. & Loria, S.F. 2020. Systematic Revision of the Asian Forest Scorpions (Heterometrinae Simon, 1879), Revised Suprageneric Classification of Scorpionidae Latreille, 1802, and Revalidation of Rugodentidae Bastawade et al., 2005. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 442(1): 1–480. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.442.1.1 Reference page. 

2021

• de Miranda, G.S., Giupponi, A.P. de L. , Prendini, L. & Scharff, N. 2021. Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi). European Journal of Taxonomy 772: 1–409. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505. . Reference page. 

2024

• Amiri, M., Prendini, L., Hussen, F.S., Aliabadian, M., Siahsarvie, R. & Mirshamsi, O. 2024. Integrative systematics of the widespread Middle Eastern buthid scorpion, Hottentotta saulcyi (Simon, 1880), reveals a new species in Iran. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 82: 323–341. DOI: 10.3897/asp.82.e98662. . Reference page.