Pontarachna punctulum Phillippi, 1840

Chatterjee, Tapas, 2021, A checklist of halacarid and hydrachnid mites (Acari, Halacaridae & Hydrachnidia) associated with sponges (Porifera), Zootaxa 5072 (2), pp. 101-129 : 120

Pontarachna punctulum Phillippi, 1840

Report associated with sponges: This species was reported among sponge Aplysina sp. from Rovinj (Rovigno) (Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Viets 1940).

Remarks: This has been commonly found in the Mediterranean area ( Chatterjee et al. 2019, Pešić et al. 2019). There are also some records from the Black Sea, USA and Canada ( Chatterjee et al. 2019). Durucan (2021b) reported this species from Izmir —Urla-Karantina Island, Turkey, Aegean Sea among oyster, bivalves Pinctada radiata (Leach, 1814) .