Halacarellus obsoletus Bartsch 1995

• Main Author: Chatterjee, Tapas
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Trombidiformes; Halacaridae; Halacarellus; Halacarellus obsoletus; Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5747451; https://zenodo.org/record/5747451

Halacarellus obsoletus Bartsch, 1995 Report associated with sponges: This species was reported among hexactinellid Rossella antarctica , R. nuda , R. racovitzae , and Anoxycalyx ( Scolymastra ) joubini (cited as Scolymastra joubini ) collected from eastern Weddell Sea (Bartsch 1995). Remarks : According to the mite's morphology, it is specialized for a life in sponge tissue (Bartsch 1995). : Published as part of Chatterjee, Tapas, 2021, A checklist of halacarid and hydrachnid mites (Acari, Halacaridae & Hydrachnidia) associated with sponges (Porifera), pp. 101-129 in Zootaxa 5072 (2) on page 109, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5733656 : {"references": ["Bartsch, I. (1995) Halacarellus obsoletus n. sp. (Arachnida: Acari: Halacaridae), an associate with Antarctic hexactinellid sponges. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 71, 121 - 128. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 19950710113"]}