The Scorpion Files is joining the multiverse

 

Most major movie franchises have introduced the concept of multiverse. And now The Scorpion Files follows this trend. 

As previously mentioned, Lorenzo recently published a major revision of the whole scorpion order with a lot of changes. Some changes are fundamental, like removing all subspecies and subgenera and either synonymizing or changing status to the associated taxa. Other changes are based on investigations with justification. 

It is not an exaggeration to say that quite a few scorpion researchers have been negative or skeptical to Prendini's work. But they do not reject all changes, just some of them, and often because of lack of justification and not that the decisions are wrong.

Some researchers have started to publish new articles based on Prendini's scorpion taxonomy and The Scorpion Files has to respond to this. I can't ignore this major work anymore and wait if someone will publish an article rejecting all of Prendini's decisions. This will probably not happen. 

So a temporary solution will be the "multiverse solution". I'm now working on making two versions of every family list in The Scorpion Files. Family pages based on Prendini, 2026 will have "2026" added to the file name (e.g., bothriuridae 2026.php). The "old" family pages will now have a text and a link to the multiverse version:  

The taxonomy of Bothriuridae according to Prendini, 2026 is available here. 

Please not that this is a work in progress and only a few new family pages are finished. I hope that most families will be covered by the end of next week, but the family Buthidae will be finished last because this family have several major changes that will take some time to implement.

Please note that the number of species and genera and some links may not be correct yet in the multiverse pages, but will be fixed during the summer. 

 I wish all of you a nice summer!

Jan Ove Rein
Editor 

PS! The illustration is generated by Chat GPT. 

Reference:Prendini L. All genera of the world: Order Scorpiones (Animalia: Arthropoda: Arachnida). Megataxa. 2026;019(2):270–378. [Open Access]