Enarthronota

Enarthronota Temporal range:
Hypochthonius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Oribatida
Suborder:	Enarthronota Grandjean, 1947

Enarthronota is a suborder of mites in the order Oribatida. There are about 14 families and more than 450 described species in Enarthronota.

Families

These 14 families belong to the suborder Enarthronota:

• Arborichthoniidae J. & P. Balogh, 1992
• Atopochthoniidae Grandjean, 1949
• Brachychthoniidae Thor, 1934
• Cosmochthoniidae Grandjean, 1947 (cosmochthoniids)
• Eniochthoniidae Grandjean, 1947
• Haplochthoniidae Hammen, 1959
• Heterochthoniidae Grandjean, 1954
• Hypochthoniidae Berlese, 1910
• Nothridae Berlese, 1896
• Pediculochelidae Lavoipierre, 1946
• Phyllochthoniidae Travé, 1967
• Protoplophoridae Ewing, 1917
• Pterochthoniidae Grandjean, 1950
• Sphaerochthoniidae Grandjean, 1947

Further reading

• Marshall, V. G.; Reeves, R. M.; Norton, R. A. (1987). "Catalogue of the Oribatida (Acari) of continental United States and Canada". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 119: i–418. doi:10.4039/entm119139fv.
• Pepato, A. R.; Klimov, P. B. (2015). "Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites--evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15: 178. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2. PMC 4557820. PMID 26330076.
• Krantz, G. W.; Walter, D. E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.
• Halliday, R. B.; O'connor, O'B. M.; Baker, A. S. (2000). "Global diversity of mites". In Raven, P. H. (ed.). Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World. National Academy Press. pp. 192–203. doi:10.17226/6142. ISBN 978-0-309-06555-9.