A new species of water mite (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Assam, India, found in the gut contents of the fish Botia dario (Botiidae)

VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ; TAPAS CHATTERJEE; MRINAL KUMAR DAS; SABITRY BORDOLOI

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3746.3.4

Issue: Vol. 3746 No. 3: 12 Dec. 2013

Type: Article

Published: 2013-12-12

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3746.3.4

Page range: 454–462

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**A new species of water mite (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Assam, India, found in the gut contents of the fish Botia dario (Botiidae)**

VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ⁺⁻
TAPAS CHATTERJEE⁺⁻
MRINAL KUMAR DAS⁺⁻
SABITRY BORDOLOI⁺⁻

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.

Department of Biology, Indian School of Learning, I.S.M Annexe, P.O.-ISM, Dhanbad-826004, Jharkhand, India

Biodiversity Laboratory, Life Sciences Division; Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Paschim Boragaon, P.O.Garchuk, Guwahati-781035, Assam, India

Acari Hydrachnidia new species taxonomy fishes gut content India

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Abstract

Water mites (Hydrachnidia) occur sporadically in the gut of freshwater fishes. In this study, nine water mite items were found in the gut contents of the fish Botia dario (Hamilton, 1822) (Botiidae) collected in a floodplain wetland (beel) in the river island Majuli, Assam, India. Torrenticola episce is described as new to science; Torrenticola haliki Pešić & Smit 2010, Monatractides oxystomus (K. Viets, 1935) and Hygrobates cf. sinensis Uchida & Imamura, 1951, are reported for the first time from India.