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- Acosta, L.E. & Cokendolpher, J.C. 1990. Nelima doriae introduced into Argentina, first record of the subfamily Leiobuninae (Opiliones: Gagrellidae) from South America. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 144-146
- Baker, C.M. & Boyer, S.L. in Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., Laukó, D.I., Wiesner, H.A. & Quay, R.H. 2015. Phylogeny and biogeography of the mite harvestmen (Arachnida :Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) of Queensland, Australia, with a description of six new species from the rainforests of the Wet Tropics. Invertebrate Systematics 29: 37-70
- Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., Laukó, D.I., Wiesner, H.A. & Quay, R.H. 2015. Phylogeny and biogeography of the mite harvestmen (Arachnida :Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) of Queensland, Australia, with a description of six new species from the rainforests of the Wet Tropics. Invertebrate Systematics 29: 37-70
- Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M. & Popkin-Hall, Z.R. in Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., Laukó, D.I., Wiesner, H.A. & Quay, R.H. 2015. Phylogeny and biogeography of the mite harvestmen (Arachnida :Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) of Queensland, Australia, with a description of six new species from the rainforests of the Wet Tropics. Invertebrate Systematics 29: 37-70
- Boyer, S.L. & Baker, C.M. in Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., Laukó, D.I., Wiesner, H.A. & Quay, R.H 2015. Phylogeny and biogeography of the mite harvestmen (Arachnida :Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) of Queensland, Australia, with a description of six new species from the rainforests of the Wet Tropics. Invertebrate Systematics 29: 37-70
- Boyer, S.L. & Giribet, G. 2007. A new model Gondwanan taxon: systematics and biogeography of the harvestman family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi), with a taxonomic revision of genera from Australia and New Zealand. Cladistics 23: 337–361
- Boyer, S.L. & Popkin-Hall, Z.R. in Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., Laukó, D.I., Wiesner, H.A. & Quay, R.H 2015. Phylogeny and biogeography of the mite harvestmen (Arachnida :Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) of Queensland, Australia, with a description of six new species from the rainforests of the Wet Tropics. Invertebrate Systematics 29: 37-70
- Boyer, S.L. & Quay, R.H. in Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., Laukó, D.I., Wiesner, H.A. & Quay, R.H. 2015. Phylogeny and biogeography of the mite harvestmen (Arachnida :Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) of Queensland, Australia, with a description of six new species from the rainforests of the Wet Tropics. Invertebrate Systematics 29: 37-70
- Canestrini, G. 1871. Nuove specie di Opilionidi Italiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 3: 381-385
- Cantrell, B.K. 1980. Additional Australian harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19: 241-253
- Cokendolpher, J.C. & Maury, E.A. 1990. Austropsopilio (Opiliones, Cyphopalpatores, Caddidae) discovered in South America. Boletín de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción 61: 59-62
- Davies, V.T. 1977. Neopurcellia capricornia, a new opilionid (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Sironidae: Sironinae) from Queensland Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 18: 61-63
- De Geer, C. 1778. Mémoires pour Servir á l'Histoire des Insectes. Stockholm : Pierre Hesselberg Vol. 7 i-xii, 950 pp., pls 1-49.
- Derkarabetian, S., Baker, C.M., Hedin, M., Prieto, C.E. & Giribet, G. 2021. Phylogenomic re-evaluation of Triaenonychoidea (Opiliones : Laniatores), and systematics of Triaenonychidae, including new families, genera and species. Invertebrate Systematics 35: 133-157
- Forster, R.R. 1947. A new harvestman of the subfamily Liobuninae from Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 15: 174-177
- Forster, R.R. 1948. A new genus and species of the family Acropsopilionidae (Opiliones) from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77: 139-141
- Forster, R.R. 1949. Australian Opiliones. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 16: 59-89
- Forster, R.R. 1952. Western Australian Opiliones. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 36: 23-29
- Forster, R.R. 1954. The New Zealand harvestmen (Sub-Order Laniatores). Canterbury Museum Bulletin 2: 1-329
- Forster, R.R. 1955. Further Australian harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones). Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 354-411
- Giribet, G. 2003. Karripurcellia, a new pettalid genus (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) from Western Australia, with a cladistic analysis of the family Pettalidae. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 387-406
- Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P., Benavides, L.R., Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., De Bivort, B.L., Dimitrov, D., Kawauchi, G.Y., Murienne, J. & Schwendinger, P.J. 2012. Evolutionary and biogeographical history of an ancient and global group of arachnids (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) with a new taxonomic arrangement. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 92–130
- Giribet, G., Shaw, M., Lord. A. & Derkarabetian, S. 2022. Closing a biogeographic gap: a new pettalid genus from South Australia (Arachnida : Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi : Pettalidae) with a UCE-based phylogeny of Cyphophthalmi. Invertebrate Systematics 36(11): 1002–1016
- Giribet, G., Sheridan, K., Baker, C., Painting, C., Holwell, G., Sirvid, P. & Hormiga, G. 2021. A molecular phylogeny of the circum-Antarctic Opiliones family Neopilionidae. Invertebrate Systematics 35: 827-849
- Giribet, G., Vogt, L., González, A.P., Sharma, P. & Kury, A.B. 2009. A multilocus approach to harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) phylogeny with emphasis on biogeography and the systematics of Laniatores. Cladistics 25: 1–30
- Goodnight, C.J. & Goodnight, M.L. 1948. New phalangids from the Southwest Pacific. American Museum Novitates 1371: 1-14
- Gruber, J. & Hunt, G.S. 1973. Nelima doriae (Canestrini), a South European harvestman in Australia and New Zealand (Arachnida, Opiliones, Phalangiidae). Records of the Australian Museum 28: 383-392
- Harvey, M.S. & Yen, A.L. 1989. Worms to Wasps: An Illustrated Guide to Australia's Terrestrial Invertebrates. Melbourne : Oxford University Press/Museum of Victoria 203 pp.
- Herbst, J.F.W. 1798. Natursystem der Ungeflügelten Insekten. Berlin : Lange Vol. 2.
- Herbst, J.F.W. 1799. Natursystem der Ungeflügelten Insekten. Berlin : Lange Vol. 3.
- Hickman, V.V. 1957. Some Tasmanian harvestmen of the sub-order Palpatores. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 91: 65-79
- Hickman, V.V. 1958. Some Tasmanian harvestmen of the family Triaenonychidae (sub-order Laniatores). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 92: 1-116
- Hickman, V.V. 1959. Calliuncus vulsus nom. nov. (Opiliones). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 93: vi
- Hogg, H.R. 1910. Some New Zealand and Tasmanian Arachnidae. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 42: 273-283
- Hunt, G.S. 1971. The genus Nunciella Roewer (Opiliones, Laniatores) with descriptions of a new species from Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96: 53-65
- Hunt, G.S. 1972. A new cavernicolous harvestman from Western Australia (Arachnida: Opiliones: Triaenonychidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11: 232-236
- Hunt, G.S. 1985. Taxonomy and distribution of Equitius in eastern Australia (Opiliones: Laniatores: Triaenonychidae). Records of the Australian Museum 36: 107-125
- Hunt, G.S. 1987. New records of the exotic leiobunid harvestman, Nelima doriae. Australasian Arachnology 29: 4-5
- Hunt, G.S. 1990. Hickmanoxyomma, a new genus of cavernicolous harvestmen from Tasmania (Opiliones: Triaenonychidae). Records of the Australian Museum 42: 45-68
- Hunt, G.S. 1991. Opiliones (Arachnida) of the Kimberley rainforests, Western Australia. pp. 295-297 in McKenzie, N.L., Johnston, R.B. & Kendrick, P.G. (eds). Kimberley Rainforests. Chipping Norton : Surrey Beatty & Sons 490 pp.
- Hunt, G.S. 1992. Revision of the genus Holonuncia Forster (Arachnida, Opiliones, Triaenonychidae) with description of cavernicolous and epigean species from eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 44: 135-163
- Hunt, G.S. 1993. A new cavernicolous harvestman from lava tube caves in tropical Australia (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangodidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 217-219
- Hunt, G.S. 1995. Revision of the harvestman genus Miobunus from Tasmania (Arachnida: Opiliones: Triaenonychidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 52: 243-252
- Hunt, G.S. & Cokendolpher, J.C. 1991. Ballarrinae, a new subfamily of phalangioid harvestmen from the Southern Hemisphere (Arachnida, Opiliones, Neopilionidae). Records of the Australian Museum 43: 131-169
- Hunt, G.S. & Hickman, J.L. 1993. Revision of the genus Lomanella Pocock with implications for family level classification in the Travunioidea (Arachnida: Opiliones: Triaenonychidae). Records of the Australian Museum 45: 81-119
- Jay, K.R., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., Coblens, M.J., Oberski, J.T., Sharma, P.P. & Boyer, S.L. 2016. New species of Austropurcellia, cryptic short-range endemic mite harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) from Australia's Wet Tropics biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 586: 37-93
- Juberthie, C. 1988. Un nouvel opilion cyphophthalme aveugle d'Australie: Austropurcellia gen. nov., scoparia n. sp. Mémoires de Biospéologie 15: 133-139
- Juberthie, C. 1989. Rakaia daviesae sp. nov. (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27: 499-507
- Juberthie, C. 2000. A new blind Cyphophthami (Opiliones) from Queensland (Australia). Mémoires de Biospéologie 27: 149-154
- Karsch, F. 1880. Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I). Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 53: 373-409
- Kauri, H. 1954. Report from Professor T. Gislen's expedition to Australia in 1951-1952. 9. Harvest-spiders from S. W. Australia. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. 50(11): 3-10
- Koch, C.L. 1839. Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Nürnberg : C.H. Zeh'schen Vol. 2 pp. 1–38.
- Kraus, O. 1963. Carl-Friedrich Roewer 1881-1963. Senckenbergiana Biologica 44: 553-562
- Loman, J.C.C. 1910. Opiliones. pp. 127-134 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 3.
- Martens, J. 1966. Zoologischen Aufsammlungen auf Kreta III. Opiliones. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 69: 347-362
- Martens, J. 1969. Mittel und südeuropäische Arten der Gattung Nelima (Arachnida: Opiliones: Leiobunidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 50: 395-415
- Pocock, R.I. 1903. Fifteen new species and two new genera of tropical and southern Opiliones. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 433-450
- Pocock, R.I. 1903. On some new harvest-spiders of the order Opiliones from the southern continents. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1902(2): 392-413
- Popkin-Hall, Z.R. & Boyer, S.L. 2014. New species of mite harvestmen from southeast Queensland, Australia greatly extend the known distribution of the genus Austropurcellia (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi). Zootaxa 3827(4): 517-541
- Rainbow, W.J. 1920. Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 229-272
- Roewer, C.F. 1910. Revision der Opiliones Plagiostethi (= Opiliones Palpatores) I. Teil: Familie der Phalangiidae. (Subfamilien: Gagrellini, Liobunini, Leptobunini). Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Hamburg 19(4): 1-294
- Roewer, C.F. 1912. Die familien der Assamiiden und Phalangoden der Opiliones-Laniatores. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 78A: 1-242
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- Roewer, C.F. 1921. Results of Dr E. Mjoberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 24. Australische Opiliones. Arkiv för Zoologi 13(18): 1-10
- Roewer, C.F. 1923. Die Webernechte der Erde. Jena : Gustav Fischer pp. 1-1116.
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- Roewer, C.F. 1929. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island. No. V. Opiliones in the Western Australian Museum. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 15: 95-98
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