Copidognathus fabricii ( Lohmann, 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 : 194

Copidognathus fabricii ( Lohmann, 1889)

Report found in seagrass habitats – Lohmann (1889, 1893) reported this species among seagrass ( Zostera sp. ) from Baltic Sea. This species was reported among mixed habitat containing seagrass Zostera sp. and algae Chorda filum , Laminaria sp. from Bergen, Norway ( Viets 1927a); reported among Zostera sediments from Bergen, Norway ( Viets 1928); in sediments of Zostera meadows from Brittany coast (Bartsch 1978).

Remarks – This species is inhabitant of lower tidal and subtidal substrata - sandy deposits, algae and colonial organisms ( Bartsch 2020).