Biscirus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Bdelloidea (Eupodina)
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Acariformes Ordo: Trombidiformes Subordo: Prostigmata Cohort: Eupodina Superfamilia: Bdelloidea

Familia: Bdellidae
Subfamilia: Spinibdellinae
Genus: Biscirus
Species:B. amplexus – B. aquilonius – B. arenarius – B. insularis – B. iranensis – B. kleinmondensis – B. kobachidzei – B. lootsi – B. macfarlanei – B. magdalenae – B. melanostomus – B. nevadicus – B. nixis – B. norvegicus – B. obliquus – B. peragilis – B. psammina – B. quinqueoculatus – B. silvaticus – B. simplexus – B. skuinsbaaiensis – B. splendidus – B. symmetricus – B. thori – B. uncinatus – B. vulgaris

Name

Biscirus Thor, 1913: 29

Type species: Bdella silvatica Kramer, 1881 (by original designation)

Synonymy

Neobiscirus Gomelauri, 1963: 167
- Type species: Neobiscirus kobachidzei Gomelauri, 1963

References

Primary references

Thor, S. 1913. Biscirus genus novum. Eine neue Bdelliden-Gattung und zwei neue Untergattungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 42: 28–30. BHL Reference page.
Paktinat-Saeej, S., Bagheri, M., Saboori, A. & Ahaniazad, M. 2015. Two new Bdellidae (Trombidiformes: Bdelloidea) from Iran and the status of Neobiscirus Gomelauri, 1963. Zootaxa 4013(4): 519–530. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Gomelauri, L.A. 1963. On the study of mites of the Bdellidae family in Georgia S.S.R. Soobshcheniya Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoy S.S.R. 30(2): 47–51. Reference page.

Additional references

Hernandes, F.A., Skvarla, M.J., Fisher, J.R., Dowling, A.P.G., Ochoa,R., Ueckermann, E.A. & Bauchan, G.R. 2016. Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world. Zootaxa 4152(1): 1–83. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4152.1.1. Reference page.