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- Title
A new species of Litarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystem.
- Authors
Pešić, Vladimir; Chatterjee, Tapas; Alfaro, Monica; Schizas, Nikolaos V.
- Abstract
New records of pontarachnid mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico are presented. Litarachna lopezae sp. n., from substrata collected from Bajo de Sico, a mesophotic coral reef ecosystem in Mona Passage off Puerto Rico, is described as new to science. The new species was collected from nearly 70 m depth, the greatest depth from which pontarachnid mites have been found until now. In addition, a Litarachna sp. was also found in association with the tube of the polychaete Sabellastarte magnifica (Shaw, 1800) at the shallow waters of north Puerto Rico.
- Subjects
PUERTO Rico; WATER mites; CORAL reef ecology; SABELLASTARTE; MARINE biodiversity
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2014, Issue 425, p89
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.425.8110