Thalassarachna longipes

• Main Author: Chatterjee, Tapas
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Trombidiformes; Halacaridae; Thalassarachna; Thalassarachna longipes; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5747501; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039E1C1EFFADFF98FF62B0AAFC43312C

Thalassarachna longipes (Trouessart, 1888) Report associated with sponges: This species (reported as Halacarus murrayi ) was found among sponges and algae (Lohmann 1889). This species was also reported in empty Ostrea valves extensively pitted by sponge Cliona sp. from New Haven harbour, Long Island Sound, Eastern North America (Newell 1947). Remarks: This was recorded on various substrata: sediments, algae, sponges, and bryozoans from Boreal North Atlantic, European and American shores (Newell 1947; Bartsch1998a; Chatterjee 2022). This species was also found amongst cuticular structures of spider crab Libinia emarginata (Arthropoda, Crustacea, Malacostraca, Decapoda) from Rhode Island, USA (Bartsch 1979 a; Chatterjee 2021a). 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 113, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5072.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5733656