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Unionicola crassipes

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7005 - 6462
  • 2. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & Aquamuseu do Rio Minho, Vila Nova de Cerveira, 4920 - 290, Portugal. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5513 - 6875
  • 3. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & Aquamuseu do Rio Minho, Vila Nova de Cerveira, 4920 - 290, Portugal. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2294 - 6174
  • 4. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, rua do Campo Alegre s / n, 4169 - 007 Porto, Portugal & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3736 - 5743
  • 5. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & Aquamuseu do Rio Minho, Vila Nova de Cerveira, 4920 - 290, Portugal. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5399 - 2483

Description

Unionicola crassipes (Müller, 1776)

Synonym: Hydrachna crassipes Müller, 1776 (original designation)

Type material: Unknown, possibly lost.

Type locality: Denmark (probably surroundings of Copenhagen) or Norway (Müller 1776).

Geographical distribution: Palaearctic (Gerecke et al. 2016).

Distribution in Portugal: Centre: Beira Alta, in Santa Comba Dão, and Côa River, near 10 km to Vilar Formoso; South: Estremadura, in Colares-Sintra municipality; Alentejo, in Ribeira de Odivelas; Guadiana River-between Serpa and Beja municipalities (Lundblad 1956; Valdecasas 1988).

Ecological notes: In standing and slow-moving freshwater ecosystems, with ectoparasitic larvae of insectchironomids and on larval Trichoptera (Gerecke et al. 2016), in clear water, on a sandy substrate; present in plants, such as Azolla spp. Batrachium spp., Carex spp., Juncus spp., Myriophyllum spp., Nymphea spp., and Scirpus spp. (Lundblad 1956).

Unionicola parvula Lundblad, 1954

Synonym: Unionicola (Pentatax) parvula Lundblad, 1954 (original designation)

Type material: Deposited in NRM: Holotype one female (Lundblad 1954), Lundblad No. Präp. 4120; Paratype: One male Lundblad No. Präp. 4381 (Lundblad 1956).

Type locality: France: Béziers (Lundblad 1954, 1956).

Geographical distribution: France and Iberian Peninsula (Gerecke et al. 2016; Lundblad 1956).

Distribution in Portugal: Centre: Beira Alta, in Santa Comba Dão (Lundblad 1956).

Ecological notes: Freshwater, at slow-moderate flowing streams(Gerecke et al. 2016), on sandy substrate; present in Carex spp. plants (Lundblad 1956).

Unionicola hankoi Szalay, 1927

Type material: Paratype: One male deposited in NRM, Lundblad No. Präp. 4501 (Lundblad 1956).

Type locality: Hungary: Balatonsee (Lundblad 1956; Szalay 1927).

Geographical distribution: Eastern and Southern Europe (Gerecke et al. 2016; Tuzovskij & Semenchenko 2015).

Distribution in Portugal: Centre: Beira Alta (Valdecasas 1988), in Côa River, near 10 km to Vilar Formoso (Lundblad 1956).

Ecological notes: In lentic and lotic freshwater ecosystems (Erman et al. 2010); Found in the mantle cavity (females) or the branchiae (deutonymph forms) of mollusc-unionids (Gerecke et al. 2016); present in Myriophyllum spp. and Juncus spp. (Lundblad 1956).

Notes

Published as part of Cantallo, Harold, Gomes, Nuno, Antunes, Carlos, Martins, Duarte & Costa, Dimítri De Araújo, 2022, Checklist of water mites from mainland Portugal and its archipelagos, pp. 336-370 in Zootaxa 5213 (4) on page 362, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5213.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7381432

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B187913A54FFE0FF3087938988FAFF

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5213.4.2 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7381432 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF88FFE93A4EFFFAFFA7874C886DFF85 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/685D4DC1-0C1E-4E76-BEEE-E54749603695 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03B187913A54FFE0FF3087938988FAFF (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/205333997 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/198868/taxon/03B187913A54FFE0FF3087938988FAFF.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
NRM
Scientific name authorship
Muller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trombidiformes
Family
Unionicolidae
Genus
Unionicola
Species
crassipes
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Unionicola crassipes (Muller, 1776) sec. Cantallo, Gomes, Antunes, Martins & Costa, 2022

References

  • Muller, O. F. (1776) s. n. In: Muller, O. F. (Ed.), Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Hallageriis, Havniae, pp. i - xxxii + 1 - 282. [http: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / item / 47550] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 13268
  • Gerecke, R., Gledhill, T., Pesic, V. & Smit, H. (2016) Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa. Bd. 7 / 2 - 3. Chelicerata: Acari III. Band 7 / 2 - 3. Springer Spektrum, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London and New York, pp. i - xi + 1 - 429. [http: // link. springer. com / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 8274 - 2689 - 5]
  • Lundblad, O. (1956) Zur Kenntnis sud- und mitteleuropaischer Hydrachnellen. Arkiv for Zoologi 10, 1 - 306, tafel LXXXIV.
  • Valdecasas, A. G. (1988) Lista sinonimica y bibliografica de las Hidracnelas (Acari, Hydrachnellae) de la Peninsula Iberica, Islas Baleares e Islas Canarias. Lista de la flora y fauna de las aguas continentales de la Peninsula Iberica. Publicacion no 5. Asociacion Espanola de Limnologia, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, 81 pp. [http: // www. limnetica. net / documentos / listas / Lista _ 5 _ Hidracnelas. pdf]
  • Lundblad, O. (1954) Neue sudeuropaische Wassermilben. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 153, 154 - 159.
  • Szalay, L. (1927) Eine neue Wassermilbe aus dem Balatonsee. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 71, 279 - 281.
  • Tuzovskij, P. V. & Semenchenko, K. A. (2015) Water mites of the genus Unionicola Haldeman, 1842 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Unionicolidae) in Russia. Zootaxa, 3919 (3), 401 - 456. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3919.3.1
  • Erman, O., Pesic, V., Esen, Y. & Ozkan, M. (2010) A checklist of the water mites of Turkey (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 2624 (1), 1. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2624.1.1