Torpacarus remotus Schatz 1994
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Description
Torpacarus remotus Schatz, 1994
Distribution: Ecuador.
Records in Ecuador: Galápagos (Islas: Santa Cruz, Floreana, Bartolomé, Sombrero Chino, Genovesa, Fernandina).
Habitat: Isla Santa Cruz: Puerto Ayora, littoral zone, under Rhizophora mangle, moist, decayed mangrove-leaf litter; littoral zone near Tortuga Bay, mangrove swamp around Rhizophora mangle and Avicennia germinans, in moist, mangrove leaf litter. Isla Floreana: below Cerro Pajas, under Croton scouleri var. brevifolius and Commelina diffusa, in well decayed moist, leaf litter and humus. Isla Bartolomé: littoral zone, under Laguncuiaria racemosa near Pinnacle Rock, in moist, mangrove leaf litter and humus. Isla Sombrero Chino: littoral zone, under Heliotropium angiospermium and Sesuvium edmonstonei, in moist, decayed leaf litter. Isla Genovesa: littoral zone in Darwin Bay, under Cryptocarpus pyriformis, in partially-decayed leaf litter and humus, moist. Isla Fernandina: Punta Espinosa, littoral zone, in moist mangrove leaf litter, under Rhizophora mangle. Litoral and moist zone.
References: Schatz (1994): 176-178; Schatz (1994a): 285; Schatz (1998): 381.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lohmanniidae
- Genus
- Torpacarus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Sarcoptiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Schatz
- Species
- remotus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Torpacarus remotus Schatz, 1994 sec. Revelo-Tobar, 2022
References
- Schatz, H. (1994 a) Lohmanniidae (Acari: Oribatida) from the Galapagos Islands, the Cocos Island, and Central America. Acarologia, 35 (3), 267 - 287.
- Schatz, H. (1998) Oribatid mites of the Galapagos Islands - Faunistics, ecology and speciation. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 22, 373 - 409. https: // doi. org / 10.1023 / A: 1006097928124