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<taxonomicName id="64AE91A3120CFFE821FF6B0BFDC61F09" authority="Cook, 1986" authorityName="Cook" authorityYear="1986" box="[151,590,590,616]" class="Arachnida" family="Pontarachnidae" genus="Litarachna" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Trombidiformes" pageId="4" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="amnicola">
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120CFFE821FF6B0BFE321F09" bold="true" box="[151,442,590,616]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Litarachna cf. amnicola</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="C73F97D1120CFFE820AA6B0BFDC61F09" author="Cook" box="[450,590,590,616]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" refString="Cook, D. R. (1986) Water mites from Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 40, 1 - 568." type="journal article" year="1986">Cook, 1986</bibRefCitation>
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(
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<figureCitation id="3B95F6A5120CFFE821F76B34FEA41FEA" box="[159,300,625,651]" captionStart-0="FIGURES 12 – 16" captionStart-1="FIGURES 17 – 18" captionStartId-0="5.[151,269,1707,1731]" captionStartId-1="6.[151,269,1477,1501]" captionTargetBox-0="[171,1427,209,1654]" captionTargetBox-1="[160,1431,448,1446]" captionTargetId-0="figure@5.[151,1436,197,1682]" captionTargetId-1="figure@6.[151,1436,429,1451]" captionTargetPageId-0="5" captionTargetPageId-1="6" captionText-0="FIGURES 12 – 16. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook (12 – 14 = female, 15 – 16 male): 12, 15 = idiosoma, ventral view; 13, 16 = palp; 14 = I-Leg- 5 – 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." captionText-1="FIGURES 17 – 18. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook, deutonymph: 17 = idiosoma, ventral view; 18 = palp. Scale bar = 100 µm." httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/187081/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/187082/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Figs. 12–18</figureCitation>
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120CFFE821FF6BFBFE841FB9" bold="true" box="[151,268,702,728]" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Material.</emphasis>
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Tasmania, Tamar valley, Tamar river, North of Launceston, marsh around lagoon, muddy bottom, temperature 11.8 °C, 41°22.863΄S 147°03.993΄E,
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asl.,
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, leg. Karanović, one male, six females, one deutonymph (one male, one female and one deutonymph of them dissected and slide mounted in Hoyer's fluid).
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120CFFE821AE6A1DFEEF1E13" bold="true" box="[198,359,856,882]" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Morphology.</emphasis>
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Male: Idiosoma L/W 306/231. First coxal plates fused medially. Suture lines of coxal plates II/III and III/IV medially incomplete. Lateral apodemes of fourth coxal plates shorter than medial apodemes, the latter extending beyond anterior margin of genital field (
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<figureCitation id="3B95F6A5120CFFE822316AE3FC381EA1" box="[857,944,934,960]" captionStart="FIGURES 12 – 16" captionStartId="5.[151,269,1707,1731]" captionTargetBox="[171,1427,209,1654]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,197,1682]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 12 – 16. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook (12 – 14 = female, 15 – 16 male): 12, 15 = idiosoma, ventral view; 13, 16 = palp; 14 = I-Leg- 5 – 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187081/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Fig. 15</figureCitation>
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). Genital field L/W 26/24, consisting of a sclerotized ring with four pairs of setae, 16–17 pairs of perigenital setae free in integument around genital field. A pair of small platelets with coxoglandularia 4 and associated setae placed between the posterior lateral and medial apodemes of the fourth coxal plates; the large glandularia-like structure fused with the fourth coxal plates. Posterior to the genital field a pair of platelets with three pores and three pairs of wheel-like acetabula (sensu
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<bibRefCitation id="C73F97D1120CFFE821836D2DFEF019E3" author="Cook" box="[235,376,1128,1154]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" refString="Cook, D. R. (1996) A freshwater species of Pontarachna (Acari, Pontarachnidae) from South Africa, with a discussion of genital acetabula in the family. Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Seria Zoologia, 67, 259 - 264." type="journal article" year="1996">Cook, 1996</bibRefCitation>
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) or specialized glandularia (sensu
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<bibRefCitation id="C73F97D1120CFFE822716D2DFC5619E3" author="Tuzovskij" box="[793,990,1128,1154]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" refString="Tuzovskij, P. V. (1978) Peculiarities of the body chaetome structure in the water mites of the family Pontarachnidae. Biologiya Morya, Morfologija, 5, 75 - 79. (in Russian)" type="journal article" year="1978">Tuzovskij, 1978</bibRefCitation>
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), with many radiating spokes Two of these wheel-like structures large, the most posterior one small with relatively few radiating spokes. Excretory pore unsclerotized, near the posterior idiosoma margin. Palp (
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<figureCitation id="3B95F6A5120CFFE822F26DF0FC7D19AE" box="[922,1013,1205,1231]" captionStart="FIGURES 12 – 16" captionStartId="5.[151,269,1707,1731]" captionTargetBox="[171,1427,209,1654]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,197,1682]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 12 – 16. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook (12 – 14 = female, 15 – 16 male): 12, 15 = idiosoma, ventral view; 13, 16 = palp; 14 = I-Leg- 5 – 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187081/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Fig. 16</figureCitation>
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) total L 202, dorsal L and %L (in parentheses): P-1 17 (8.4), P-2 62 (30.7), P-3 26 (12.9), P-4 70 (34.7), P-5 27 (13.4); L P-2/P-4 ratio 0.89; palp as in female. Lengths of I-Leg-4–6: 39, 55, 70; IV-Leg-4–6: 76, 86, 105; III-Leg-5, IV-Leg-4 and IV-Leg-5 with one swimming seta.
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Female: Idiosoma L/W 343/263. First coxal plates fused medially. Suture lines of first and second coxal plates complete, suture lines of second and third coxal plates and suture lines of third and fourth coxal plates incomplete. Lateral apodemes of fourth coxal plates shorter than medial apodemes, the latter extending to posterior margin of genital field (
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<figureCitation id="3B95F6A5120CFFE823716C81FDF818BF" box="[537,624,1476,1502]" captionStart="FIGURES 12 – 16" captionStartId="5.[151,269,1707,1731]" captionTargetBox="[171,1427,209,1654]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,197,1682]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 12 – 16. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook (12 – 14 = female, 15 – 16 male): 12, 15 = idiosoma, ventral view; 13, 16 = palp; 14 = I-Leg- 5 – 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187081/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Fig. 12</figureCitation>
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). Genital field L/W 77/39. Pregenital and postgenital sclerite strongly bowed. A pair of small platelets with (according to Wiles
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120CFFE8222C6CAEFCF71B65" box="[836,895,1515,1540]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">et al.</emphasis>
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2002) coxoglandularia 4 and associated setae placed between the posterior lateral and medial apodemes of the fourth coxal plates; the large glandularia-like structure fused with the fourth coxal plates. Posterior to the genital field a pair of platelets with three pores and four pairs of wheel-like acetabula (sensu
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<bibRefCitation id="C73F97D1120CFFE823E76F1BFC961B19" author="Cook" box="[655,798,1630,1656]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" refString="Cook, D. R. (1996) A freshwater species of Pontarachna (Acari, Pontarachnidae) from South Africa, with a discussion of genital acetabula in the family. Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Seria Zoologia, 67, 259 - 264." type="journal article" year="1996">Cook, 1996</bibRefCitation>
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) or specialized glandularia (sensu
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<bibRefCitation id="C73F97D1120CFFE825AE6F1BFA071B19" author="Tuzovskij" box="[1222,1423,1630,1656]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" refString="Tuzovskij, P. V. (1978) Peculiarities of the body chaetome structure in the water mites of the family Pontarachnidae. Biologiya Morya, Morfologija, 5, 75 - 79. (in Russian)" type="journal article" year="1978">Tuzovskij, 1978</bibRefCitation>
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). Three of these wheel-like structures large with many radiating spokes, the most posterior one small with relatively few radiating spokes. Excretory pore unsclerotized, near the posterior idiosoma margin. Palp (
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<figureCitation id="3B95F6A5120CFFE824046FE9FF3D1B8D" captionStart="FIGURES 12 – 16" captionStartId="5.[151,269,1707,1731]" captionTargetBox="[171,1427,209,1654]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,197,1682]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 12 – 16. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook (12 – 14 = female, 15 – 16 male): 12, 15 = idiosoma, ventral view; 13, 16 = palp; 14 = I-Leg- 5 – 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187081/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Fig. 13</figureCitation>
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) total L 221, dorsal L and %L (in parentheses): P-1 17 (7.7), P-2 72 (32.6), P-3 27 (12.2), P-4 76 (34.4), P- 5 29 (13.1); L P-2/P-4 ratio 0.95; P-2 with small ventrodistal peg-like projection (
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<figureCitation id="3B95F6A5120CFFE825086FBCFB301A72" box="[1120,1208,1785,1811]" captionStart="FIGURES 12 – 16" captionStartId="5.[151,269,1707,1731]" captionTargetBox="[171,1427,209,1654]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,197,1682]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 12 – 16. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook (12 – 14 = female, 15 – 16 male): 12, 15 = idiosoma, ventral view; 13, 16 = palp; 14 = I-Leg- 5 – 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187081/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Fig. 13</figureCitation>
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); ventral margin of P-4 with a strongly developed setal tubercle. Lengths of I-Leg-5–6 (
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<figureCitation id="3B95F6A5120CFFE822DA6E65FB821A5B" box="[946,1034,1824,1850]" captionStart="FIGURES 12 – 16" captionStartId="5.[151,269,1707,1731]" captionTargetBox="[171,1427,209,1654]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,197,1682]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 12 – 16. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook (12 – 14 = female, 15 – 16 male): 12, 15 = idiosoma, ventral view; 13, 16 = palp; 14 = I-Leg- 5 – 6. Scale bars = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187081/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Fig. 14</figureCitation>
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): 59, 76; IV-Leg-4–6: 85, 94, 105; III-Leg-5 with one swimming setae, IV-Leg-4 and IV-Leg-5 with one and two swimming setae, respectively.
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Deutonymph: As in adults, but lacking a genital field (
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<figureCitation id="3B95F6A5120CFFE822326E28FC3C1AE6" box="[858,948,1901,1927]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 18" captionStartId="6.[151,269,1477,1501]" captionTargetBox="[160,1431,448,1446]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[151,1436,429,1451]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 18. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook, deutonymph: 17 = idiosoma, ventral view; 18 = palp. Scale bar = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187082/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Fig. 17</figureCitation>
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). Idiosoma L/W 234/181; Palp (
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<figureCitation id="3B95F6A5120CFFE824536E28FA1B1AE6" box="[1339,1427,1901,1927]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 18" captionStartId="6.[151,269,1477,1501]" captionTargetBox="[160,1431,448,1446]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[151,1436,429,1451]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 18. Litarachna cf. amnicola Cook, deutonymph: 17 = idiosoma, ventral view; 18 = palp. Scale bar = 100 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187082/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Fig. 18</figureCitation>
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) total L 144, dorsal L and %L (in parentheses): P-1 13 (9.0), P-2 42 (29.2), P-3 21 (14.6), P-4 48 (33.3), P-5 20 (13.9); L P-2/P-4 ratio 0.88.
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120DFFE921FF6FEEFED51BA2" bold="true" box="[151,349,1707,1731]" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">FIGURES 12–16.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120DFFE9200B6FEEFE511BA3" box="[355,473,1707,1730]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">Litarachna</emphasis>
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cf.
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120DFFE9236A6FEEFDED1BA3" box="[514,613,1707,1730]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">amnicola</emphasis>
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Cook
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(12–14 = female, 15–16 male): 12, 15 = idiosoma, ventral view; 13, 16 = palp; 14 = I-Leg-5–6. Scale bars = 100 µm.
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Due to the first coxal plates medially fused and the large glandularia-like structure fused with the fourth coxal plates, the specimens from Tamar estuary show a general conformity with
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120DFFE9247B6E7FFE821A1B" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">Litarachna amnicola</emphasis>
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. The description of
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120DFFE923CC6E24FCB11A1B" box="[676,825,1889,1914]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">L. amnicola</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is based on the two male specimens, taken from interstitial deposits of the George River in northwest Tasmania (
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), less than
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from the sea (
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). The only differences are found in the presence of the small ventrodistal peg-like projection on P-2 (absent in
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specimens of
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120DFFE9234E6E90FD3D1A8F" box="[550,693,2005,2030]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">L. amnicola</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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- see
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) and the presence of swimming setae on III- Leg-5, IV-Leg-4 and IV-Leg-
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the specimens from Tamar estuary (absent in
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specimens of
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<emphasis id="91DA3632120EFFEA24EB69DDFE841DB9" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="59">L. amnicola</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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). The loss of swimming setae in the
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specimens might be the result of collecting these specimens in the hyporheic interstitial. The degree of variability of additional Tasmanian populations and carefully checking absence of the small ventrodistal peg-like projection on P-
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the
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specimens are necessary before we can assess the taxonomic state of these specimens.
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Tasmania.
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</treatment>
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