A checklist of deep-sea halacarid mites (Acari, Halacaridae) found from more than 1000 m depth
Author
Chatterjee, Tapas
text
Persian Journal of Acarology
2021
2021-07-15
10
23
249
268
journal article
10.22073/pja.v10i3.67563
2251-8169
5235720
Lohmannella fukushimai
Imamura, 1968
Record from more than
1000 m
depth –
ANT - Amundsen Sea,
71° S
110° W
,
1041–1047 m
— Bartsch (2010).
Record from other depth (less than
1000 m
depth) –
ANT - Prince Harald
Coast
,
69° S
31° E
,
190 m
depth - Imamura (1968); Ross Sea,
72° S
172–
173°E
,
342–360 m
depth —
Bartsch (1993)
; Weddell Sea, 71°–
72° S
12–
13°W
193–211 m
depth —
Bartsch (1993)
; Weddell Sea,
75° S
30° W
,
820 m
depth —
Bartsch (1993)
; Amundsen Sea,
74° S
105° W
,
490–504 m
— Bartsch (2010);
74° S
105° W
,
496–509 m
depth — Bartsch (2010).
Remarks –
This species is circum-Antarctic from depth
190 m
to
1047 m
. Presence of spots of eye pigment beneath the corneae and in the middle of the AD indicates that this species shallow water rather than a deep water inhabitant (Bartsch 2010).