Travunioidea Triaenonychoidea Assamioidea Epedanoidea Phalangodoidea Samooidea Sandokanoidea Zalmoxoidea Gonyleptoidea Laniatores is the largest suborder of the arachnid order Opiliones with over 4,200 described species worldwide.

The majority of the species are highly dependent on humid environments and usually correlated with tropical and temperate forest habitats.

Laniatores are typically (relatively) short-legged, hard-plated, spiny Opiliones, common under logs and stones, in leaf litter and in caves.

[1] The largest family is Gonyleptidae Sundevall, 1833, endemic of the Neotropics, with over 800 valid species and showing many cases of maternal and paternal care.

The ovipositor is short and unsegmented (derived character state shared with the Dyspnoi).