Although the ancestral home of chelicerates was the sea, the
vast majority of modern species live on land. Most students of
spiders and mites also restrict themselves to terrestrial habitats.
However, a surprising number of mites (Arachnida: Acari) have
returned to a watery existence. Approximately 7000 species from the
Mesostigmata, Astigmata, Oribatida, and especially the Prostigmata,
now live in marine and freshwater habitats. In Aquatic Mites, a
dozen chapters explore the distribution, ecology, behavior,
genetics, and evolution of the most diverse of these astonishing
arachnids. The results of these studies raise as many interesting
questions as they answer, and should provoke more investigations of
the biology of freshwater and marine Acari.
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