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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.22073/pja.v11i2.70790
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scientific name	Thalassarachna basteri (Johnston, 1836)
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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).

References

Bartsch, I. (2009) Checklist of marine and freshwater halacarid mite genera and species (Halacaridae: Acari) with notes on synonyms, habitats, distribution, and descriptions of the taxa, Zootaxa, 1998: 1 - 170.

Bartsch, I. (2015) Thalassarachna basteri and T. affinis (Acari, Halacaridae), history, characters, biology, and distribution. Ecologica Montenegrina, 2 (3): 228 - 241.

Green, J. & MacQuitty, M. (1987) Halacarid mites. Synopses of the British Fauna, New Series, Volume 36. Brill / Backhuys, 178 pp.

Lohmann, H. (1889) Die Unterfamilie der Halacaridae Murr. und die Meeresmilben der Ostsee. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, Okologie und Geographie der Tiere, 4: 269 - 408.

Newell, I. M. (1947) A systematic and ecological study of the Halacaridae of eastern North America. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, 10: 1 - 232.

Viets, K. (1927 a) Halacaridae. Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee, XI. c: 1 - 72.