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New records of Acari from the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands

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Sixty species of Acari are recorded from the sub-Antarctic Marion and Prince Edward Islands (the Prince Edward archipelago). Twenty of the 45 species collected on recent expeditions are new and currently undescribed. Other new taxa include a family of Mesostigmata, four new genera, and the first sub-Antarctic records of Cillibidae (Mesostigmata) and Eryngiopus (Prostigmata). Fifteen of the 31 species previously reported from the islands are confirmed, although eight of the previous accounts remain doubtful. The fauna, which shows a distinction between the shoreline and terrestrial components, comprises endemic, South Indian Ocean Province and sub-Antarctic mite species.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Durban-Westville, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa e-mail: marshall@pixie.udw.ac.za, Fax: +27-31-2044790 , , , , , , ZA

    D. J. Marshall

  2. Bureau Data-Analyse Ecologie, Dwarsdrift 24, 7981 AP Diever, The Netherlands, , , , , , NL

    N. J. M. Gremmen

  3. National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa, , , , , , ZA

    L. Coetzee

  4. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA, , , , , , US

    B. M. O’Connor

  5. British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK, , , , , , GB

    P. J. A. Pugh

  6. Zoology Department, Potchefstroom University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, , , , , , ZA

    P. D. Theron

  7. Biosystematics Division, Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, , , , , , ZA

    E. A. Ueckermann

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Accepted: 18 July 1998

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Marshall, D., Gremmen, N., Coetzee, L. et al. New records of Acari from the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands. Polar Biol 21, 84–89 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050338

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