Origin of the inland Acari of Continental Antarctica, with particular reference to Dronning Maud Land
DJ Marshall, PJA Pugh - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
DJ Marshall, PJA Pugh
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1996•academic.oup.comThe extant Acari occurring on the inland mountain ranges and nunataks of Continental
Antarctica comprise only pre-Pleistocene endemic Prostigmata and Cryptostigmata of which
the Prostigmata are the probable earlier colonists. The inland acarofauna of Continental
Antarctica has a different origin from that of Maritime Antarctica, though both are the relict
descendants of a Mesozoic acarofauna, which has been radically depleted by one or more
Mesozoic and/or Cenozoic glacial events.
Antarctica comprise only pre-Pleistocene endemic Prostigmata and Cryptostigmata of which
the Prostigmata are the probable earlier colonists. The inland acarofauna of Continental
Antarctica has a different origin from that of Maritime Antarctica, though both are the relict
descendants of a Mesozoic acarofauna, which has been radically depleted by one or more
Mesozoic and/or Cenozoic glacial events.
Abstract
The extant Acari occurring on the inland mountain ranges and nunataks of Continental Antarctica comprise only pre-Pleistocene endemic Prostigmata and Cryptostigmata of which the Prostigmata are the probable earlier colonists. The inland acarofauna of Continental Antarctica has a different origin from that of Maritime Antarctica, though both are the relict descendants of a Mesozoic acarofauna, which has been radically depleted by one or more Mesozoic and/or Cenozoic glacial events.
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