Rhombognathides pascens (Lohmann, 1889)

Chatterjee, Tapas, 2021, A checklist of halacarid and hydrachnid mites (Acari, Halacaridae & Hydrachnidia) associated with sponges (Porifera), Zootaxa 5072 (2), pp. 101-129 : 111

Rhombognathides pascens (Lohmann, 1889)

Report associated with sponges: This species was reported from mud and sediments containing organisms such as sponge ( Halicondria sp. ), algae ( Cystoclonium, Plocanium ), pycnogonids, etc., from Helgoland, North Sea ( Viets 1927a). This was also reported from sand containing sponge Halicondria sp. along with caprellids, gammarids, ostracods etc. from Bergen, Norway ( Viets 1928).

Remarks: This species was found in eastern and western North Atlantic (from the Azores to northern Norway), Baltic Sea, and Black Sea among various substrata (Lohmann 1889; Viets 1927a; Newell 1947; Bartsch 1972, 2009; Green & MacQuitty 1987; Abé 1998).