Copidognathus remipes ( Trouessart, 1894 )

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 : 197

Copidognathus remipes ( Trouessart, 1894)

Report found in seagrass habitats – This species was reported among Posidonia sp. from Split, Croatia (Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Viets 1939, 1940); among Posidonia oceanica from Cala del Cuartel, in Santa Pola, southeastern Spain (Alboran Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Martínez et al. 2021). This was also reported from Bozcaada, Çanakkale (Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea) among detritus rich sediment with Posidonia oceanica at 8 m depth ( Durucan 2021b).

Remarks – This species was reported from lower intertidal to subtidal zones on sediments, algae, and barnacles, etc., also found in brackish water ( Green and MacQuitty 1987; Durucan 2019a).