Agaue chevreuxi (Trouessart, 1889)

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 : 190

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scientific name

Agaue chevreuxi (Trouessart, 1889)
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Agaue chevreuxi (Trouessart, 1889)

Report found in seagrass habitats – This species was reported among seagrass and also in mixed habitat containing Zostera sp. and algae Fucus sp. , Sargassum sp. from Rovinj (Rovigno), Croatia (Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Viets 1940). This species was also reported among meadows of Posidonia oceanica from Naples, Italy (Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea) and also from Bozcaada, Çanakkale (Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Mari and Morselli 1990; Durucan 2021a).

Remarks – This species has been reported in a variety of substrata like subtidal algae, mussels, sponge, and sediment from northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea ( Trouessart 1889a; Lohmann 1893; Viets 1940; Bartsch 1998, 2009, 2016a).

Bartsch, I. (1998) Halacarinae (Acari, Halacaroidea) from the northwestern Black Sea: A review. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 95: 143 - 178.

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. (2016 a) Commented and illustrated key for identification of Agaue chevreuxi (Trouessart, 1889) and A. panopae (Lohmann, 1893) (Acari, Halacaridae). Ecologica Montenegrina, 8: 45 - 54.

Durucan, F. (2021 a) Halacaridae (Prostigmata: Acari) of the Aegean Sea of Turkey (Canakkale and Izmir). Persian Journal of Acarology, 10 (3): 341 - 346. DOI: 10.22073 / pja. v 10 i 3.67699

Lohmann, H. (1893) Die Halacarinen der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der Plankton- Expedition der Humboldt Stiftung, 2. G. A: 11 - 95.

Mari, M. & Morselli, I. (1990) Idracnelle ed Alacaridi (Acari) di una prateria di Posidonia oceanica (L.) delile dell'isola d'Ischia. Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie, Serie B, 96: 243 - 256.

Trouessart, E. (1889 a) Diagnoses d'especes et genres nouveaux d'acariens marins (Halacaridae) des cotes de France. Le Naturaliste, 11: 161.

Viets, K. (1940) Meeresmilben aus der Adria (Halacaridae und Hydrachnellae, Acari). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, (Neue Folge) 9: 1 - 135.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Halacaridae

Genus

Agaue