Editing Telson (section)

==Chelicerates==
[[File:Scorpion_Photograph_By_Shantanu_Kuveskar.jpg|thumb|''[[Hottentotta tamulus]]'' scorpion, showing telson]]
The term ''telson'' is widely used for the [[caudal spine]] of some [[Chelicerata|chelicerates]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Richard C. Brusca & Gary J. Brusca |year=2003 |title=Invertebrates |url=https://archive.org/details/invertebratesnde00brus |url-access=limited |edition=2nd |publisher=[[Sinauer Associates]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/invertebratesnde00brus/page/n670 1]–936 |isbn=0-87893-097-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes |year=1994 |title=Invertebrate Zoology |edition=6th |publisher=[[Saunders (publisher)|Saunders]] |isbn=0-03-026668-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/invertebratezool0006rupp }}</ref> The chelicerate telson can be clearly seen in a number of fossil species (like in [[eurypterid]]s) and in extant animals (like the [[horseshoe crab]] "tail" and the [[scorpion]] sting). Some authorities have urged that the usage of this word in this context be discouraged.{{Why|date=August 2014}}<ref>{{cite journal |author=Karl-Ernst Lauterbach |year=1980 |title=Schlüsselereignisse in der Evolution des Grundplans der Arachnata (Arthropoda) |language=de |trans-title=Key events in the evolution of the ground plan of the Arachnata (Arthropoda) |journal=Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg |series=NF |volume=23 |pages=163–327}}</ref>