ACARIFORMES
(acariform mites)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
images
No of
ID refs
Order 1 subtaxa 4 ident. refs
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Order 3 subtaxa 5 images 8 ident. refs
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Order 58 subtaxa 323 images 45 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperorderACARIFORMES (acariform mites)
SubclassACARI (mites)
ClassARACHNIDA (mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.)
SubphylumCHELICERATA (a subphylum of arthropods)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource

Freshwater

Visser, H. & Veldhuijzen van Zanten, H.H. European Limnofauna wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/limno.php

Key To Major Groups

() Crotty, F. & Shepherd, M. 2014 A Key to Soil Mites in the UK

ACARIFORMES (acariform mites) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ACARIFORMES (acariform mites)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 382 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ACARIFORMES (acariform mites)
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