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NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS OF SOME SPECIES OF AQUATIC MITES IN EGYPT

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Animal Systematics
Arthropods

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the taxonomic position of some species of water mites, and explore the difference between the numerical taxonomy and the traditional morphological taxonomy for water mites. Based on hierarchical clustering analysis and principal component analysis (PCA), the numerical taxonomy of 17 species of water mites was carried out. These analyses were applied for 309 morphological characters of the present species. The results of the clustering analysis based on squared Euclidean distance showed that the 17 species of the water mites were divided into 10 Families in the cladogram namely Hydrozetidae, Malaconothridae, Unionicolidae, Tenuipalpidae, Tuckerellidae, Tetranychidae, Cheyletidae, Laelaptidae, Ascidae, and Dermanyssidae. The separation of these species depended on the highly-significant characters, which have high factor loading more than 1.0. The percentages of non-significant variations in the morphological characters were 51.90%, 18.45%, and 10.02% for two groups of water mite taxa with total variation equals 80.37%. In conclusion, the numerical analysis can confirm the traditional morphological taxonomy by using different analyses such as the cladistic analysis and PCA.

DOI

10.21608/ejz.2022.130389.1077

Keywords

Acari, Aquatic mites, Hierarchical clustering, Numerical taxonomy, PCA

Authors

First Name

Somaia

Last Name

Ramadan

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

Email

somaiaramadan@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

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First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Mustafa

MiddleName

N.

Affiliation

Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

Email

asmaa.ahmed1@science.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

0000-0003-1468-8638

Volume

78

Article Issue

78

Related Issue

38138

Issue Date

2022-12-01

Receive Date

2022-03-29

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

41

Page End

60

Print ISSN

1110-6344

Online ISSN

2682-3160

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https://ejz.journals.ekb.eg/article_248841.html

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Original Research Papers

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684

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Zoology

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https://ejz.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023