A checklist of halacarid and pontarachnid mites (Acari: Halacaridae and Pontarachnidae) found in seagrass habitats Author Chatterjee, Tapas . Near Hari Mandir Road, Hirapur, Dhanbad 826001, Jharkhand, India; E-mails: drtchatterjee @ yahoo. co. in, drtchatterjee @ gmail. com Author Durucan, Furkan . German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany; E-mail: f _ durucan @ hotmail. com &. Department of Aquaculture, Isparta University of Applied Sciences, 32260 Isparta, Turkey f_durucan@hotmail.com text Persian Journal of Acarology 2022 2022-04-15 11 2 187 223 journal article 10.22073/pja.v11i2.70790 2251-8169 7173523 Copidognathus brachystomus Viets, 1940 Report found in seagrass habitats – This species reported in mixed habitat containing seagrass Zostera sp. and algae Fucus sp. , Sargassum sp. ) from Rovinj (Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Viets 1939 , 1940 ). Remarks – This species was reported in variey of substrata from noertheastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea ( Viets 1940 ; Morselli 1980 ; Bartsch 2001 , 2009 ).