Unionicola: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Family
- Unionicolidae
- Genus
- Unionicola
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Unionicola
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Unionicola
Unionicola is a genus of freshwater arachnids, specifically water mites, belonging to the family Unionicolidae. The genus was described in 1842 by Samuel Stehman Haldeman. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Most Unionicola are associated with molluscs, but Unionicola crassipes and Unionicola minor are associated with sponges of family Spongillidae. The association with mussels can be described as symbiotic. There is evidence that mites consume host tissue and can be associated with reduced host fitness, although the causal direction of the latter remains unclear.
Species include the following:
- Unionicola gracilipalpis
- Unionicola figuralis
- Unionicola crassipes
- Unionicola aculeata
- Unionicola ypsilophora (Bonz, 1783)
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Unionicola aculeata
- Unionicola acylindrotarsa
- Unionicola berezai
- Unionicola billieaehonore
- Unionicola burchi
- Unionicola calnani
- Unionicola conjunta
- Unionicola crassipes
- Unionicola entrerrianensis
- Unionicola figuralis
- Unionicola fissipes
- Unionicola furculopsis
- Unionicola gracilipalpis
- Unionicola hensleyi
- Unionicola hoesei
- Unionicola longiseta
- Unionicola mexicana
- Unionicola minor
- Unionicola neoperforata
- Unionicola petita
























