Galapagos Species Database
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Plegadognathus bonairensis
Arácnidos, Arachnids
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Trombidiformes
Suborder
Prostigmata
Superfamily
Halacaroidea
Family
Halacaridae
Genus
Plegadognathus
Species
bonairensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Arhodeoporus bonairensis (Viets, 1936), Arhodeoporus ventromaculatus Otto, 2000, Copidognathus bonairensis Viets, 1936 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Schatz, H. (1991) Catalogue of known species of Acari from the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador, Pacific Ocean). International Journal of Acarology 17(3): 213-225.
- Viets, K. (1936) Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Bonaire, Curaçao und Aruba im Jahre 1930. No. 18. Halacariden aus Westindien. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. 67, 389-424.
- Westheide, W. (1991) The meiofauna of the Galápagos: a review. In: M.J. James (ed.): Galápagos marine invertebrates. Taxonomy, biogeography, and evolution in Darwin´s islands. Plenum Press, New York and London, p. 37-73.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Plegadognathus bonairensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20141. Accessed 31 October 2026.