Agauopsis nonornata Bartsch, 1999

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 : 192

Agauopsis nonornata Bartsch, 1999

Report found in seagrass habitats – This species was reported among detritus rich sediment with Posidonia oceanica (12 m) at Bilem Beach from Antalya, Mediterranean Sea ( Durucan and Boyaci 2018) .

Remarks – This species was first reported as Agauopsis ornata in interstitial sand from tropical East Pacific, Galapagos Islands, mainly in the lower slope area of the beaches of the islands Fernandina, Tower, James, Santa Cruz and Barrington ( Bartsch 1977; Bartsch and Schmidt 1978). Bartsch (1999d) described as a new species based on materials from Galapagos and also from Caribbean region, in shallow water on the east coast of Panama.