Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Plegadognathus bucculentus (Bartsch, 1977)

Arácnidos, Arachnids

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Arachnida

Order
Trombidiformes

Suborder
Prostigmata

Superfamily
Halacaroidea

Family
Halacaridae

Genus
Plegadognathus

Species
bucculentus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Arhodeoporus bucculentus Bartsch, 1977 (Horton et al., 2021).; (Arhodeoporus b.) Holotype in ZMUH

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • Bartsch, I. (1977) Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos XX. Halacaridae (Acari). Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens 65: 1-108.
  • 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.
  • 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 bucculentus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20142. Accessed 31 October 2026.