enarthronote

plural enarthronotes

1. Any of the suborder Enarthronota of mites in the order Oribatida.

   The ancestral distribution of plates and scissures in Enarthronota is not known precisely, but there is evidence that erectile setae appeared early in enarthronote evolution.

   2001, Robert Bruce Halliday, RB Halliday, Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress, CSIRO PUBLISHING, page 68

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   Current highly split classifications of the Enarthronota are criticized as being uninformative or misleading with regard to relationships. A cladistic analysis of seven enarthronote genera is offered.

   1984, Clive Edward Bowman, Donald Alister Griffiths, editors, Acarology VI, volume 6, number 1, E. Horwood, page 239

   Again these are animals macerated from rocks and include palaeosomates and enarthronotes; as well as a more advanced oribatid group, Parahyposomata, among the Irish specimens.

   2012, Jason A. Dunlop, David Penney, Fossil Arachnids, Siri Scientific Press, page 78