Copidognathus magnipalpus (Police, 1909)

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 : 195

Copidognathus magnipalpus (Police, 1909)

Report found in seagrass habitats – This species was reported among seagrass and also in mixed habitat containing Zostera sp. and algae Fucus sp. , Sargassum sp. from Rovinj, (Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Viets 1939, 1940). This was reported from Naples, Italy (Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea) on seagrass Posidonia oceanica ( Mari and Morselli 1990) . This was also found among seagrasses Thalassia hemprichii , Halophila stipulacea , Syringodium isoetifolium from Gazi Bay ( Kenya) ( Chatterjee and De Troch 2000). This species was reported among Posidonia oceanica from Cala del Cuartel, Santa Pola, southeastern Spain (Alboran Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Martínez et al. 2021).

Remarks – This species was reported among various substrata ( Durucan 2019b).