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Halarachne americana Banks, 1899

Caribbean monk seal nasal mite

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct [by implication] (Kenyon, 1977 [extinction of type host]; Furman & Dailey, 1980 [only known from type host]; Rolbiecki et al., 2018 [only known from type host])

Last record: 1899 or before [by implication] (Banks, 1899 [protologue]; Newell, 1947 [re-description based on type material]; Furman & Dailey, 1980 [only type material cited])

 

Distribution & Habitat

Waters around the Caribbean

 

Biology & Ecology

The only known host was the now extinct Carribean monk seal (Neomonachus tropicalis) (Banks, 1899; Rolbiecki, 2018).

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Banks, Nathan. (1899). A new species of the genus Halarachne. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 212-214.

 

Other references:

Adam, P. J. (2004). Monachus tropicalis. Mammalian Species 747: 1-9.

Banks, Nathan. (1915). The Acarina Or Mites: A Review of the Group for the Use of Economic Entomologists. Rep. US Dept. Agric. 108: 1-142.

Dailey, M. D. and Brownell, R. L., Jr. (1972). A checklist of marine mammal parasites, pp. 528-589. In: RIdgway, S. H. (ed.). Mammals of the sea: biology and medicine. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.

Domrow, R. (1962). Halarachne miroungae Ferris redescribed. Pacific Insects 4(4): 859-863.

Ferris, G. F. (1925). On two species of the G. Halarachne (Acarina, Gamasidae). Parasitology 17(2): 163-167. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182000004492

Furman, Deane P. and Dailey, Murray D. (1980). The genus Halarachne (Acari: Halarachnidae), with the description of a new species from the Hawaiian monk seal. Journal of Medical Entomology 17(4): 352-359. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/17.4.352

Kenyon, K. W. (1977). Caribbean Monk seal extinct. Journal of Mammalogy 58(1): 97-98. https://doi.org/10.2307/1379738

Newell, I. M. (1947). Studies on the morphology and systematics of the family Halarachnidae Oudemans 1906 (Acari, Parasitoidea). Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection 10: 235-266.

Pugh, P. J. A. (1996). The structure and function of the tarsus I sensillar field in mites of the genus Halarachne (Halarachnidae: Gamasida). Journal of Natural History 30(7): 1069-1086. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939600770571

Rolbiecki, Leszek, Izdebska, Joanna N., Bidziński, Konrad and Jankowska-Jarek, Martyna. (2018). Nasopharyngeal mites Halarachne halichoeri (Allman, 1847) parasitizing the gray seal Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791) in the Baltic Sea with notes on other parasitic Halarachnidae associated with marine mammals. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies 47(4): 398-404. https://doi.org/10.1515/ohs-2018-0037

Shields, Morgan M., Roth, Tara and Pesapane, Risa. (2024). A pictorial key to the adult and larval nasal mites (Halarachnidae) of marine mammals. ZooKeys 1216: 101-114. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1216.135359

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1754/halarachne-americana-caribbean-monk-nasal

 

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