Harry Smit

Harry Smit, Dutch acarologist

• Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 taxon names authored by Harry Smit

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2002

• Smit, H. 2002: Two new species of the water mite family Pontarachnidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with a discussion of the taxonomic status of Pontarachna hinumaensis Imamura. Zootaxa 22: 1–8. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2002. Rheophilic water mites from southern Argentina, with the description of one new genus and three new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 103: 1–23. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2002. Two new water mite species from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 61: 1–10. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2009

• Smit, H. 2009: New and rare water mites from New Caledonia (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 198: 391-419. Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2010

• Pesic, V.; Smit, H.; Daltry, T. 2010: Water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the hyporheic waters of the Selwyn River (New Zealand), with descriptions of nine new species. Zootaxa 2355: 1–34. Preview Reference page. 

2011

• Zhang, Z-Q., Fan, Q-H., Pesic, V., Smit, H., Bochkov, A.V., Khaustov, A.A., Baker, A., Wohltmann, A., Wen, T-H., Amrine, J.W., Beron, P., Lin, J-Z., Gabrys, G. & Husband, R. 2011. Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. Pp 129–138 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 

2012

• Pešić, V., Smit, H. & Saboori, A. 2012. Water mites delineating the Oriental and Palaearctic regions—the unique fauna of southern Iran, with description of one new genus, one new subgenus and 14 new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 3330: 1–67. Preview Reference page. 
• Pešić, V.M.; Smit, H. 2012: Second contribution to the knowledge of water mites of the genus Monatractides K. Viets (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from New Guinea, with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 3350: 46–57. Preview Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2012. The genus Albia Thon from Australia, with the description of two new species (Acari: Hydrachidia: Aturidae). Zootaxa 3309: 62–67. Preview Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2012: A second species of the Australian water mite genus Austrotrombella Southcott (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hydryphantidae). Systematic & applied acarology 17(3): 349–352. Preview Reference page. 

2013

• Smit, H. 2013: Three new hyporheic water mite species from Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Subterranean biology 10: 37-42. DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.10.2988 Reference page. 

2014

• Pešić, V.M., Smit, H. & Saboori, A. 2014: Checklist of the water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of Iran: Second supplement and description of one new species. Ecologica Montenegrina 1(1): 30-48. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2014. The first hyporheic water mites from the Afrotropical region (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with new species of the genera Kawamuracarus Uchida and Bharatohydracarus Cook. Acarologia 54(1): 39–45. DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20142112 Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2014. Australian water mites of the genus Hydrachna Müller, with the description of five new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hydrachnidae). Zootaxa 3827(2): 170–186. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.2.3 Reference page. 
• Smit, H. & Pešić, V.M. 2014: A new Arrenurus species from India (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae). Ecologica Montenegrina 1(2): 109-112. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2015

• Pešić, V.M., Smit, H. & Mary-Sasal, N. 2015: Third contribution to the knowledge of water mites from the Comoros, with the description of two new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 3964(4): 445–459. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.4.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Pešić, V., Smit, H. & Mary-Sasal, N. 2015. Fourth contribution to the knowledge of water mites from the Comoros, with the description of two new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 4052(5): 589–594. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.5.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2015: The water mite genus Procorticacarus K.O. Viets in Australasia (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae). Zootaxa 3956(1): 56–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.1.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2015. A new notoaturine genus from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Aturidae: Notoaturinae). Zootaxa 4033(3): 442–444. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.3.9. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2015. The water mite family Hygrobatidae Koch in Australia. The genera Aspidiobatella Cook, Australorivacarus Viets, Gondwanabates Imamura and Rhynchaustrobates Cook (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 4033(4): 567–583. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.4.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Smit, H., Gerecke, R., Pešić, V.M. & Gledhill, T. 2015: On the taxonomic state of water mite taxa (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 3, Hygrobatoidea and Arrenuroidea with new faunistic data. Zootaxa 3981(4): 542–552. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.4.5. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2016

• Pešić, V., Smit, H. & Datry, T. 2016. A redescription of Protolimnesia longa Besch, 1963 from Bolivia, with the first description of the female (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Limnesiidae). Zootaxa 4121(1): 81–84. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.1.7. Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2016. The water mite genus Gretacarus K.O. Viets, 1978 from Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Mideopsidae: Gretacarinae), with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 4121(2): 159–166. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.2.5. Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2016. The water mite family Aturidae Thor (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Ghana, with the description of twelve new species. Zootaxa 4158(4): 523–543. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.4.5. Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2016. A new hydryphantid genus from the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Hydryphantidae). Zootaxa 4200(2): 324–326. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.6. Reference page. 
• Gerecke R., Gledhill T., Pešić V. & Smit H., 2016. Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, Bd. 7/2-3 Chelicerata: Acari III, Springer, 11 avr. 2016, 429 pages (Google books).

2017

• Savatenalinton, S. & Smit, H. 2017. New records of water mites from standing waters in Thailand, with the description of nine new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 4312(1): 69–91. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.1.3. Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2017. Notoaturine water mites from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Notoaturinae) with the description of five new species. Zootaxa 4427(1): 16–30. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4427.1.2. Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2017. New species of aturid water mites from southern Africa (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Aturidae). Zootaxa 4273(2): 287–295. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.2.9. Reference page. 

2018

• Pešić, V., Smit, H. & Mary, N. 2018. Fifth contribution to the knowledge of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Comoros: a checklist and description of one new genus and four new species. Zootaxa 4483(2): 331–348. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.2.6 Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2018. New records of aturid water mites from Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia; Aturidae), with the description of fifteen new species. Zootaxa 4425(1): 1–28. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.1.1 Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2018. A new species of the genus Decussobates Cook, 1988 from Argentina, with the first description of the male (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae). Zootaxa 4471(1): 182–184. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.1.10 Reference page. 

2019

• Pešić, V., Asadi, M., Etemadi, I. & Smit, H. 2019. New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Khuzestan Province (South Iran) with description of three new species. Zootaxa 4559(3): 550–558. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.3.5 Reference page. 
• Smit, H. 2019. The water mite genus Aspidiobates Lundblad, 1941 from Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4550(1): 115–122. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.1.5 Reference page. 
• Smit, H. & Clavier, S. 2019. A new taxonomic placement for Scutobates Cook, 1966, with the description of a new species from French Guiana (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae). Zootaxa 4543(4): 587–589. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.4.7 Reference page.