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DURING my work on the biology of the seashore in East Greenland1 I made some biological observations of the large, bright red littoral mite (Molgus littoralis L.) ; its distribution is almost circumpolar, especially on the shores of the more northern regions. In East Greenland it was commonly met with on the shore, but extending its domain beyond the shore, being found (also the eggs) up to an altitude of 120 m., most often in sandy and gravelly places. Trägårdh (p. 4192) has recorded this and explains it by the non-occurrence of big competing mites. In southern Spitsbergen, it seems to be a strictly littoral form ; but in northern Spitsbergen (Low Island, c. lat. 80° N. ; Hinlopen Strait) it also extends to the ” fj” ldmark”, which is beyond the shore (Summerhayes and Elton, p. 250)3.
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MASDSEN, H. Biology of a Littoral Mite. Nature 139, 715 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139715a0
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