Bdellidae

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Bdellidae
Temporal range: Cretaceous–present
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Bdellodes longirostris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Trombidiformes
Superfamily: Bdelloidea
Family: Bdellidae
Dugès, 1834

Bdellidae is a family of snout mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 11 genera and at least 260 described species in Bdellidae. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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In terms of size, they are medium to large-sized predatory mites. They are known to inhabit soil, leaves, as well as intertidal rocks. They can be easily recognized by their elongated, snout-like gnathosoma pedipalps bearing two (one in Monotrichobdella ) long terminal setae. [6]

Genera

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References

  1. "Bdellidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  2. "Bdellidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  3. "Bdellidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  4. "Browse Bdellidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  5. Pepato, A.R.; Klimov, P.B. (2015). "Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites--evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment". BMC Evolutionary Biology. BioMed Central. 15: 178. doi: 10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2 . PMC   4557820 . PMID   26330076.
  6. 1 2 Hernandes, Fabio A.; Skvarla, Michael J.; Fisher, J. Ray; Dowling, Ashley P. G.; Ochoa, Ronald; Ueckermann, Edward A.; Bauchan, Gary R. (2016-08-17). "Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world". Zootaxa. 4152 (1): 1–83. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4152.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   27615820.

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