CHELICERATA

Mites

Record a sighting Alerts
Name source
Australian Faunal Directory
Rank
subphylum
Data links
LSID
JSON / WMS/ RDF

Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:9482d422-aed5-4059-ba23-7cd8dfca6fbf

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

For a JSON view of this data, click here

WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=subphylum:CHELICERATA
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

To download an RDF/XML document for the concepts and names click here
A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia

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Description

The Chelicerata are arthropods as they have: segmented bodies with jointed limbs, all covered in a cuticle made of chitin and proteins ; heads that are composed of several segments that fuse during the development of the embryo ; a much reduced coelom ; a hemocoel through which the blood circulates, driven by a tube-like heart. ... source: Wikipedia

Online resources

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
CHELICERATA

Common Names

Common name Source
Mites
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Spiders
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Ticks
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
ARTHROPODA
subphylum
CHELICERATA  Recorded in Australia
class
ARACHNIDA: Mite  Recorded in Australia
class
PYCNOGONIDA: Sea Spiders  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Name references found in the TROVE - NLA