Origin of the inland Acari of Continental Antarctica, with particular reference to Dronning Maud Land

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 fro...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Main Authors: Marshall, David J., Pugh, Philip J. A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Linnean Society of London 1996
Subjects:
Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515202/
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1996.tb00221.x
Description
Summary: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.