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Issue: Vol. 2213 No. 1: 28 Aug. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-08-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2213.1.2
Page range: 47–56
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 1

New species of water mites from the Comoros (Acari: Hydrachnidia)

Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
BP 271, 98 728 Maharepa, Moorea, French Polynesia
Acari Hydrachnidia new species Comoros

Abstract

Three new species are described from the Comoros, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean: Teratothyasides scutulatus Smit & Pesic n. sp., Platymamersopsis comoros Smit & Pesic n. sp. and Atractides comorosensis Smit & Pesic n. sp. One species is reported new for the fauna of the Comoros, i.e. Monatractides ventriosa (K. Viets, 1916).

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