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Issue: Vol. 2070 No. 1: 14 Apr. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2070.1.2
Page range: 53–62
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 2

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Tasmania, with descriptions of three new species

Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro
Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acari new species Tasmania Australia

Abstract

Three new water mite (Acari: Hydrachnidia) species are described from Tasmania, Tasmanobates separatus sp. nov., Procorticacarus karanovici sp. nov. and Guineaxonopsis tasmanica sp. nov. The material was collected in 2008 during a biological survey by Tom and Ivana Karanović (Hobart, Tasmania) from surface and interstitial waters of Tasmania. Moreover, a detailed description of Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook, 1986 is given.

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