Plegadognathus bonairensis
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Plegadognathus bonairensis (Viets, 1936)
Records from India. ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS: Chiriatapu, Port Blair, Mus Island, among Halimeda opuntia — Sarma & Chatterjee (1993b). GOA: Anjuna beach, among Spongomorpha sp. — Sarma & Chatterjee (1993b). KERALA: Kovalam beach, among Gracilaria corticata — Sarma & Chatterjee (1993b).
Records from other places. AUSTRALIA: Great Barrier Reef, Australia (reported as Arhodeoporus ventromaculatus)— Otto (2000); Northwestern Australia, Dampier (reported as A. bonairensis)— Bartsch (2009b). CARIBBEAN AREA: Bonaire (reported as Copidognathopsis bonairensis)— Viets (1936). GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: Galapagos Islands (Santa Cruz) in tidal and subtidal sediments (reported as A. bonairensis)— Bartsch (1977). HAWAIAN ISLANDS: Oahu, Kauai (reported as A. bonairensis)— Bartsch (2009b). HONG KONG: Hong Kong— Bartsch (2009b). PHILIPPINES: Mactan Island— Bartsch (2009b). SINGAPORE: St John’s Island— Bartsch (2009b). QATAR: Persian Gulf, collected from steel settlement plates— Durucan et al. (2019). USA: Biscayne Bay and Soldier Key, Florida (reported as Copidognathus (s. str.) bonairensis), among green algae Halimeda opuntia — Newell (1947).
Distribution. ATW– Caribbean area, Florida; ISE—Western Australia; ITE— India (Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Goa, Kerala); ITW— Qatar; PTE—Galapagos Islands, Hawai Islands; PTW—Eastern Australia, Hong Kong, Phillipines, Singapore.
Remarks. Bartsch (2009b) classified Arhodeoporus ventromaculatus Otto, 2000 as a junior synonym of A. bonairensis. Bartsch (2016) also commented that Plegadognathus thyreophorus (André, 1959) may be a junior synonym of P. bonairensis.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Halacaridae
- Genus
- Plegadognathus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Viets
- Species
- bonairensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Plegadognathus bonairensis (Viets, 1936) sec. Chatterjee, 2022
References
- Viets, K. (1936) Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Bonaire, Curacao und Aruba im Jahre 1930. No. 18. Halacariden aus Westindien. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, Okologie und Geographie der Tiere, 67, 389 - 424.
- Sarma, A. L. N. & Chatterjee, T. (1993 b) Occurrence of Arhodeoporus bonairensis (Viets, 1936) from Indian Ocean with zoogeographical remarks on genus Arhodeoporus Newell. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 90 (3), 417 - 422.
- Otto, J. C. (2000) Seven new species of Arhodeoporus (Acarina: Halacaridae) from the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Hydrobiologia, 436, 1 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.1023 / A: 1026551716599
- Bartsch, I. (2009 b) Psammobiont halacarid mites (Acari: Halacaridae) from St John's Island, Singapore and remarks on the halacarid fauna of the Malay Peninsula. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 22, 173 - 201.
- Bartsch, I. (1977) Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos. XX. Halacaridae (Acari). Mikrofauna Meeresboden, 65, 1 - 108.
- Durucan, F., Range, P. & Ben-Hamadou, R. (2019) Plegadognathus bonariensis (Acari: Halacaridae): First halacarid mite report from Qatar. Persian Journal of Acarology, 8 (2), 165 - 168. https: // doi. org / 10.22073 / pja. v 8 i 2.45159
- 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.
- Bartsch, I. (2016) Arhodeoporus, Camactognathus, Plegadognathus, and Winlundia (Acari: Halacaridae), re-evaluation and geographical distribution. Acarologia, 56 (4), 553 - 571. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / acarologia / 20164141