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Issue: Vol. 4394 No. 4: 16 Mar. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-03-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.10
Page range: 590–593
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 1

A new water mite species from a karstic cavern in southwestern Anatolia: Acherontacarus burduricus n. sp. (Acari, Hydrachnidia)

Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Burdur, Turkey.
Süleyman Demirel University, Eğirdir Fisheries Faculty, Isparta, Turkey.
Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Faculty of Science and Arts, Burdur, Turkey.
Acari Hydrachnidia

Abstract

A new species of Acherontacarus (Acari, Hydrachnidia), Acherontacarus burduricus n. sp., is described from interstitial waters of a small karstic cavern, in Burdur province (southwestern Anatolia). This is the third record of the genus from Turkey.

 

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