Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Chelicerata > Class Arachnida > Subclass Micrura > Subclass Acari > Superorder Actinotrichida > Suborder Prostigmata > Superfamily Halacaroidea > Family Halacaridae

Rhombognathides Viets, 1927

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Rhombognathides brevipes Bartsch, 1975
Rhombognathides exoplus (Trouessart, 1901)
Rhombognathides merrimani Newell, 1947
Rhombognathides mucronatus (Viets, 1927)
Rhombognathides pascens (Lohmann, 1889)
Rhombognathides seahami (Hodge, 1860)
Rhombognathides spinipes (Viets, 1933)
Rhombognathides trionyx (Trouessart, 1899)

Literature

original description

Viets, K. (1927). Die Halacaridae der Nordsee. Z. wiss. Zool. 130: 83-173.

basis of record

Bartsch, I., 2001. Acarina - Halacaridae, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 237-241

additional source

Bartsch, I., 2006. Halacaroidea (Acari): a guide to marine genera. Org. Divers. Evol. 6(2): 103-108.

additional source

Newell, I. M. (1947). A systematic and ecological study of the Halacaridae of eastern North America. Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll. 10: 1-232.

additional source

Abé, H. (1998). Rhombognathine Mites. Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Biogeography. Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo. 219 pp.

additional source

Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Rhombognathides Viets, 1927. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=114789

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2005-07-18 by Ilse Bartsch

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