A new species of water mite Acari, Hydrachnidia from Assam, India, found in the gut contents of the fish Botia dario Botiidae

摘要

Water mites (Hydrachnidia) occur sporadically in the gut of freshwater fishes. In this study, nine water mite items were found in the gut contents of the fish Botia dario (Hamilton, 1822) (Botiidae) collected in a floodplain wetland (beel)in the riverisland Majuli, Assam, India. Torrenticola episce is described as new to science; Torrenticola haliki Pesic & Smit 2010, Monatractides oxystomus (K. Viets, 1935) and Hygrobates cf. sinensis Uchida & Imamura, 1951, are reported for the first time from India.