Compressalges nipponiae Dubinin, 1950
Japanese crested ibis parasitic mite
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct.
An extensive recent study of living Japanese crested ibises (Nipponia nippon) (the only known host) has failed to find any living Compressalges nipponiae (Waki & Shimano, 2020).
Distribution
Japan.
Compressalges nipponiae has only ever been recorded from Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) of Japanese origin. A recent study did not find any living C. nipponiae on birds introduced from the rediscovered Chinese population of Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon), and they wrote: "we recommend a revision of the status of C. nipponiae to “EX” in near future" (Waki & Shimano, 2020).
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dubinin, V. B. (1950). Features of the structures of the fastening apparatus of the feather mite Compressalges nipponiae V. Dubinin, gen. and sp. nov. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 70: 537-540. (In Russian)
Other references:
Gaud, J. and Atyeo, W. T. (1996). Family Caudiferidae. In: Gaud, J. and W. T. Atyeo (eds.), Feather Mites of the World (Acarina, Astigmata) Part I and part II, Mus. Roy. Afr. Cent., Ann. Sci. Zool., 277 : 79-82 (Part I), 205 (Part II).
Kuroki, Tomomi, Tsurumi, Miyako and Nagahori, Masayuki. (2020). Comparison of Species Composition of Feather Mite Fauna on the Crested Ibis Nipponia nippon among populations from Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Shaanxi Province, China (Reared in Japan). J. Yamashina Inst. Ornithol. 52: 113-123.
Shimano, Satoshi and Waki, Tsukasa. (2022). Extinct species of feather mite from the last two native Crested Ibises, Nipponia nippon (Temminck) (Pelecaniformes: Threskiornithidae) in Japan. Zoosymposia 22: 96. https://doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.22.1.54
Waki, Tsukasa and Shimano, Satoshi. (2020). A report of infection in the crested ibis Nipponia nippon with feather mites in current Japan. J. Acarol. Soc. Jpn., 29(1): 1-8.
Waki, Tsukasa and Shimano, Satoshi. (2022). Redescription of two parasitic feather mites sampled from the last two Crested Ibises, Nipponia nippon (Temminck, 1835) (Pelecaniformes: Threskiornithidae), lived in Japan. Zootaxa 5116(1): 136-150. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5116.1.7
http://phineasandferbrdbofjpn.web.fc2.com/kh_commentary_tokiumoudani.html
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/19413/compressalges-nipponiae
https://www.env.go.jp/press/107905.html