Rhombognathides seahami (Hodge, 1860)

Chatterjee, Tapas, 2021, A checklist of halacarid and hydrachnid mites (Acari, Halacaridae & Hydrachnidia) associated with sponges (Porifera), Zootaxa 5072 (2), pp. 101-129 : 112

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5072.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5747487

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scientific name

Rhombognathides seahami (Hodge, 1860)
status

 

Rhombognathides seahami (Hodge, 1860)

Report associated with sponges: This species was reported from mud and sediments containing organisms such as sponge ( Halicondria sp. ), algae ( Cystoclonium, Plocanium ), pycnogonids, etc., from Helgoland, North Sea ( Viets 1927a).

Remarks: This species was found in Novaja Semlja, Murmansk, Greenland, eastern and western North Atlantic, and Baltic Sea from tidal and subtidal substrata, mainly among algae in marine and brackish water (Hodge 1860; Viets 1927a; Newell 1947; Bartsch 1972, 2009; Green & MacQuitty 1987; Abé 1998).

Abe, H. (1998) Rhombognathine Mites. Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Biogeography. Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo, 219 pp.

Green, J. & MacQuitty, M. (1987) Halacarid Mites. Synopses of the British Fauna, New Series, 36, 1 - 178.

Viets, K. (1927 a) Die Halacaridae der Nordsee. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 130, 83 - 173.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

SubOrder

Prostigmata

Family

Halacaridae

Genus

Rhombognathides