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Issue: Vol. 1160 No. 1: 27 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1160.1.4
Page range: 37–47
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of water mite (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) from the mantle cavity of the prosobranch gastropod Potadoma moerchi (Reeve) (Streptoneura: Thiaridae) in Nigeria

Freshwater Biological Association, The Ferry House, Far Sawrey, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom, LA22 0LP
Department of Plant Science and Applied Zoology, Olabisi Onabanjo University, P.M.B. 2002. Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria
Acari Water mites Dockovdia oruensis new species molluscs associations

Abstract

Dockovdia oruensis sp. nov., from the mantle cavity of the prosobranch gastropod Potadoma moerchi (Reeve) in Nigeria is described and figured. This is the second water mite species from the Hygrobatidae to be reported as a ‘parasite’ of a freshwater mollusc and, significantly, the first record of a water mite from a thiarid gastropod.

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