Image of Mite
Description:
Under a moderately high magnification of 938x, this scanning electron micrograph (SEM) revealed the presence of numbers of mites from the specie Nanorchestes sp., Family Nanorchestidae. Members of this specie are free-living, fungivorous soil and leaf-litter/moss mites that were simply an incidental finding on the skin of this lizard. It is not a lizard associate per se, and certainly not parasitic. Under higher magnifications, i.e., PHIL 8808, 8809, the mites exoskeletal complexities are better appreciated in their diaphanous majesty.
Created: 2006
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Chelicerata (chelicerates)
- Arachnida (arachnids)
- Acari (mites)
- Acariformes (mitelike mites)
- Sarcoptiformes
- Endeostigmata (Endeostigs)
- Alycoidea
- Nanorchestidae (Mite)
- Nanorchestes
- Bimichaliida
- Panarthropoda
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- cc-publicdomain
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- Janice Carr
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- Public Health Image Library
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