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Kiwialges Haastii
''Kiwalges haastii'' is a species of New Zealand feather mite in the superfamily Analgoidea, known only from the great spotted kiwi (''Apteryx haastii''), from which it derives its name. Taxonomy The genus ''Kiwalges'' was erected by Gaud and Atyeo in 1970 to contain two species of kiwi feather mites, ''K. palametrichus'' and ''K. phalagotrichus.'' These species are found on brown kiwi (''Southern brown kiwi, Apteryx australis),'' little spotted kiwi ''(Little spotted kiwi, A. owenii)'', and great spotted kiwi (Apteryx haastii, ''A. haastii''). Gaud and Atyeo noted that these species, and two others they described in the genus ''Kiwilichus'', were not host specific so did not shed much light on the evolutionary origins of the different kiwi species, but no other species in this subfamily had been found on any other ratite birds. Since then feather mites have been found on most ratite species. In 1985, Dallas Bishop described a fifth species of kiwi feather mite from specimens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holotype
A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several examples, but explicitly designated as the holotype. Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), a holotype is one of several kinds of name-bearing types. In the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and ICZN, the definitions of types are similar in intent but not identical in terminology or underlying concept. For example, the holotype for the butterfly '' Plebejus idas longinus'' is a preserved specimen of that subspecies, held by the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. In botany, an isotype is a duplicate of the holotype, where holotype and isotypes are often pieces from the same individual plant or samples from the same gathering. A holotype is not necessarily "typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
