| Centruroides limbatus | |
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| Centruroides limbatus in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Scorpiones |
| Family: | Buthidae |
| Genus: | Centruroides |
| Species: | C. limbatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Centruroides limbatus (Pocock, 1898)[1]
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Centruroides limbatus is a species of bark scorpion from Central America. Its specific name "limbatus," is from the Latin meaning "black-edged," and refers to the darkly colored markings of this species.[2][3]
- ^ Pocock, R. I. 1898. "Description of some new scorpions from Central and South America". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 1:384-394.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit "Scorpion of the Day":Centruroides limbatus Archived April 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Norwegian University of Science and Technology "Scorpion Files": Centruroides limbatus