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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F11C5EFE-8B45-4F58-B7E9-741D27EB47B6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5747539

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039E1C1E-FFB2-FF87-FF62-B18BFE6B33E9

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Pontarachna punctulum Phillippi, 1840
status

 

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) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

SubOrder

Prostigmata

SuperFamily

Hygrobatoidea

Family

Pontarachnidae

Genus

Pontarachna

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF