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- noun zoology Any of a group of
mites of the superfamily Oribatoidea
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Examples
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Cold-hardiness of collembolans and oribatid mites from windswept mountain ridges.
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Anaerobiosis in overwintering collembolans and oribatid mites from windswept mountain ridges.
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Responses of oribatid mite communities to summer drought: The influence of litter type and quality [An article from: Soil Biology and Biochemistry] by A.R. Taylor
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Donoso et al. seem to be acarologically challenged, since their "Oribatidae" and "Gamasidae" are not valid names, haven't been in use since the early 1900's, and refer to large collections of families, but they claimed 35 oribatid species (I would have expected more than 100 species) and 62 gamasids in the first paragraph of the Results.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Alex Wild none@example.com 2010
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Since most poisonous frogs obtain their toxins from their diet, the team examined these frogs' stomach contents to identify what they were eating, being especially careful to identify oribatid mites to the family level because of these species' importance as a source of toxic alkaloids for poison frogs.
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These are oribatid mites, which are common in pasture.
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There was a surge in organic matter in the cores too, and of oribatid mites, spider-like arthropods that feed on dung from herbivores.
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