Crotoniidae
| Crotoniidae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Subclass: | Acari |
| Superorder: | Acariformes |
| Order: | Oribatida |
| Suborder: | Desmonomata |
| Superfamily: | Crotonioidea |
| Family: | Crotoniidae Thorell, 1876 |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 2 genera, c. 40 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Crotonidae | |
Crotoniidae are a family of mites of the Desmonomata group that may be the first animal lineage to have abandoned sexual reproduction and then reevolved it. This is a spectacular case of atavism, and later convergent evolution.[1]
Species
- Crotonia Thorell, 1876
- Crotonia alluaudi (Berlese, 1916) — Africa
- Crotonia americana (Berlese, 1901) — South America
- Crotonia ardala Luxton, 1987 — Australia
- Crotonia blaszaki Szywilewska, Olszanowski & Norton, 2005 — Chile
- Crotonia borbora Luxton, 1987 — Australia
- Crotonia brassicae Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
- Crotonia brevicornuta (Wallwork, 1966) — Antarctica
- Crotonia camelus (Berlese, 1910) — New Caledonia
- Crotonia capistrata Luxton, 1987 — Australia
- Crotonia caudalis (Hammer, 1966) — New Zealand
- Crotonia cervicorna Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia chiloensis Wallwork, 1977 — Chile
- Crotonia cophinaria (Michael, 1908) — Argentina, New Zealand
- Crotonia cupulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia dicella Colloff, 1990 — Natal, South Africa
- Crotonia ecphyla Colloff, 1990 — Natal
- Crotonia flagellata (Balogh & Csiszar, 1963) — South America
- Crotonia jethurmerae Lee, 1985 — South Australia
- Crotonia lanceolata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
- Crotonia longibulbula Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia lyrata Colloff, 1990 — Natal
- Crotonia marlenae Olszanowski, 1997 — Serra do Mar, Parati area; Brazil
- Crotonia nukuhivae (Jacot, 1934) — Pacific islands
- Crotonia obtecta (Cambridge, 1875) — Chile, New Zealand
- Crotonia ovata Olszanowski, 2000 — Hellyer River gorge: Tasmania
- Crotonia pauropelor Colloff, 1990 — Natal
- Crotonia perforata Wallwork, 1977 — St. Helena
- Crotonia pulchra (Beck, 1962) — Neotropics
- Crotonia reticulata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia rothschildi (Berlese, 1916) — Ethiopia
- Crotonia tryjanowskii Olszanowski, 2000 — New England N.P.: New South Wales
- Crotonia tuberculata Luxton, 1982 — New Zealand
- Crotonia unguifera (Michael, 1908) New Zealand
- Holonothrus Wallwork, 1963
- Holonothrus artus Olszanowski, 1999 — Aisen, Queulat National Park, Puerto Cisnes area: Chile; Melanesia
- Holonothrus concavus Wallwork, 1966 — Antarctica
- Holonothrus foliatus Wallwork, 1963 — Antarctica
- Holonothrus gracilis Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park: New Zealand
- Holonothrus mitis Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia
- Holonothrus naskreckii Olszanowski, 1997 — South Island, Nelson Lakes National Park; New Zealand
- Holonothrus nortoni Olszanowski, 1999 — Dominica, Trois Pitons: Leeward Islands
- Holonothrus novaecaledoniae Olszanowski, 1997 — Mount Paine: New Caledonia
- Holonothrus papua Balogh & Balogh, 1986 — Papua New Guinea
- Holonothrus pulcher Hammer, 1966 — New Zealand
- Holonothrus robustus Olszanowski, 1991 — Tasmania, Australia
- Holonothrus venetiolanus Olszanowski, 1999 — Mérida, Laguna Negra: Venezuela; neotropical
- Holonothrus virungensis Norton & Olszanowski, 1989 — Congo: Kinshasa
Footnotes
- ↑ Norton, R. (2007), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 24, cited in Science News, vol. 171, p. 302
References
- Subías, Luis S. (2007): Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (Excepto fósiles). PDF
- Katja Domes, Roy A. Norton, Mark Maraun & Stefan Scheu (2007). "Reevolution of sexuality breaks Dollo's law". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (17): 7139–7144. doi:10.1073/pnas.0700034104. PMC 1855408. PMID 17438282.
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