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Copidognathus eblingi Chatterjee 1991

Description

Copidognathus eblingi Chatterjee, 1991

Records from India. ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS: Ross Island, among algae Acetabularia sp. — Chatterjee (1991a), Chatterjee & Annapurna (2003).

Distribution. ITE— India (Andaman & Nicobar Islands).

Reamrks. Copidognathus eblingi belong to a natural group which contains species: C. punctatissimus (Gimbel, 1919) from eastern United States (Gimbel 1919; Newell 1947), C. dentatus Viets, 1940 from northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea (Viets 1940; Durucan 2019), C. dentipes Bartsch, 1989 from Hawaiian Islands (Bartsch 1989), C. eblingi from Andaman Islands, India (Bay of Bengal) (Chatterjee 1991a; Chatterjee & Annapurna 2003), Copidognathus jejuensis Chatterjee & Chang, 2004 from South Korea (Chatterjee & Chang 2004, 2006), Copidognathus mumbaiensis Chatterjee & Chang, 2004 from Mumbai, India (Chatterjee & Chang 2004), Copidognathus pesident Bartsch, 1992 from Society Island (Bartsch 1992), Copidognathus tupinamborum Pepato & Tiago, 2005 from Brazil (Pepato & Tiago 2005). Some of these very closely related species share very similar morphological characters, and require detailed study and molecular sequence for being validated.

Notes

Published as part of Chatterjee, Tapas, 2022, An annotated checklist of halacarid mites (Acari, Halacaridae) from India, pp. 301-320 in Zootaxa 5141 (4) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6592866

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Halacaridae
Genus
Copidognathus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Chatterjee
Species
eblingi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Copidognathus eblingi Chatterjee, 1991 sec. Chatterjee, 2022

References

  • Chatterjee, T. (1991 a) Copidognathus eblingi, a new species of Halacaridae (Acari) from Andaman Islands (Indian Ocean). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 88, 88 - 92.
  • Gimbel, O. (1919) Uber einige neue Halacariden. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 36, 105 - 130.
  • Newell, I. M. (1947) A systematic and ecological study of the Halacaridae of eastern North America. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, 10, 1 - 232.
  • Viets, K. (1940) Zwei neue Porohalacaridae (Acari) aus Sudamerika. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 130, 191 - 201.
  • Bartsch, I. (1989) New species of Copidognathus (Acari: Halacaridae) from Hawaiian Islands. Occasional Papers, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 29, 138 - 148.
  • Chatterjee, T. & Chang, C. Y. (2004) A new species and new record of halacarid mites (Acari: Halacaridae) from Jejudo Island, Korea. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, 20, 191 - 200.
  • Pepato, A. R. & Tiago, C. G. (2005) New species and new occurence of Copidognathus (Acari, Halacaridae) from the northern littoral zone of Sao Paulo State (Brazil). Zootaxa, 1083 (1), 1 - 35. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1083.1.1