Unionicola (Hexatax) gracilipalpis (Viets, 1908)

Chatterjee, Tapas, 2021, A checklist of halacarid and hydrachnid mites (Acari, Halacaridae & Hydrachnidia) associated with sponges (Porifera), Zootaxa 5072 (2), pp. 101-129 : 115

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5747519
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scientific name	Unionicola (Hexatax) gracilipalpis (Viets, 1908)
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Report associated with sponges: This has been reported among sponge Spongilla lacustris from Canada ( Conroy 1979; among sponge of the family Spongillidae ( Hevers 1980) ; among sponge Dosilia radiospiculata from Louisiana ( Vidrine et al. 1986; Vidrine 1996).

Remarks: This has been reported from Michigan and western Canada ( Cook 1980). Conroy & Scudder (1975) summarized reports of this mite from Lake Marion in Canada.

References

Conroy, J. C. (1979) The taxonomy and ecology of Unionicola crassipes crassipes (Muller), a water mite parasitic on the freshwater sponge, Spongilla lacustris (Linne), in Marion Lake, British Columbia. Proceeding of the 4 th International Congress of Acarology, 1974, 135 - 142.

Cook, D. R. (1980) Studies on Neotropical Water Mites. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Ann Arbor, 31, 1 - 645.

Hevers, J. (1980) Morphologie und Systematik der Larven der Unionicola - Arten (Hydrachnellae, Acari) Deutschlands. Acarologia, 21 (2), 249 - 266.

Vidrine, M. F., Bouchon, R. J. & Poirrier, M. A. (1986) New North American records of water mites (Acari: Unionicolidae: Unionicola: Unionicola and Pentatax). International Journal of Acarology, 12 (4), 229 - 232. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 01647958608683469

Vidrine, M. F. (1996) North American Najadicola and Unionicola: diagnoses and distributions. Gail Q. Vidrine Collectibles, Eunice, Louisiana, 356 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Trombidiformes
SubOrder	Prostigmata
SuperFamily	Hygrobatoidea
Family	Unionicolidae
SubFamily	Unionicolinae
Genus	Unionicola
SubGenus	Hexatax