A new species of Litarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem

Abstract. New records of pontarachnid mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico are presented. Litarachna lopezae sp. n., from substrata collected from Bajo de Sico, a mesophotic coral reef ecosystem in Mona Passage off Puerto Rico, is described as new to science. The new...

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Autores principales: Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas, Alfaro, Monica, Schizas, Nikolaos V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4137308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25147451
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.425.8110
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author Pešić, Vladimir
Chatterjee, Tapas
Alfaro, Monica
Schizas, Nikolaos V.
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description Abstract. New records of pontarachnid mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico are presented. Litarachna lopezae sp. n., from substrata collected from Bajo de Sico, a mesophotic coral reef ecosystem in Mona Passage off Puerto Rico, is described as new to science. The new species was collected from nearly 70 m depth, the greatest depth from which pontarachnid mites have been found until now. In addition, a Litarachna sp. was also found in association with the tube of the polychaete Sabellastarte magnifica (Shaw, 1800) at the shallow waters of north Puerto Rico.
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spelling pubmed-41373082014-08-21 A new species of Litarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem Pešić, Vladimir Chatterjee, Tapas Alfaro, Monica Schizas, Nikolaos V. Zookeys Research Article Abstract. New records of pontarachnid mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico are presented. Litarachna lopezae sp. n., from substrata collected from Bajo de Sico, a mesophotic coral reef ecosystem in Mona Passage off Puerto Rico, is described as new to science. The new species was collected from nearly 70 m depth, the greatest depth from which pontarachnid mites have been found until now. In addition, a Litarachna sp. was also found in association with the tube of the polychaete Sabellastarte magnifica (Shaw, 1800) at the shallow waters of north Puerto Rico. Pensoft Publishers 2014-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4137308/ /pubmed/25147451 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.425.8110 Text en Vladimir Pešić, Tapas Chatterjee, Monica Alfaro, Nikolaos V. Schizas http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Pešić, Vladimir
Chatterjee, Tapas
Alfaro, Monica
Schizas, Nikolaos V.
A new species of Litarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem
title A new species of Litarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem
title_full A new species of Litarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem
title_fullStr A new species of Litarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem
title_full_unstemmed A new species of Litarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem
title_short A new species of Litarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem
title_sort new species of litarachna (acari, hydrachnidia, pontarachnidae) from a caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4137308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25147451
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.425.8110
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