Thalassarachna basteri (Johnston, 1836)

Chatterjee, Tapas & Durucan, Furkan, 2022, A checklist of halacarid and pontarachnid mites (Acari: Halacaridae and Pontarachnidae) found in seagrass habitats, Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (2), pp. 187-223 : 203

Thalassarachna basteri (Johnston, 1836)

Report found in seagrass habitats – This species (cited as Halacarus spinifer ) was reported among seagrass and algae ( Lohmann 1889); among seagrass Zostera from Bergen, Norway ( Viets 1927a, b, 1928); in sediments of Zostera meadows from coast of Brittany (Bartsch 1978); among seagrass Posidonia oceanica meadows at 6 m depth from Italy (Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Bartsch 2015).

Remarks – This species has been reported in various substrata (among sand, hydroids, bryozoans, bivalves, tubes of serpulid polychaetes, algae etc) from western, eastern North Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean Sea ( Newell 1947; Green and MacQuitty 1987; Bartsch 2009).