Thalassophthirius Bartsch, 1988

Bartsch, Ilse, 2015, The genital area of Halacaridae (Acari), life stages and development of morphological characters and implication on the classification, Zootaxa 3919 (2), pp. 201-259 : 232

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5696540
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scientific name	Thalassophthirius Bartsch, 1988
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Type species. Thalassophthirius auster Bartsch, 1988 .

Male. Male with GA by fusion of GP and AP. GO in ventral position, with 74 slender pgs arranged around GO and five to six sgs on each genital sclerite ( Bartsch 1988c: fig. 1C). Number and arrangement of gac not known. Adults without epimeral pores.

Female and juveniles. Not known. Number of nymphal stages not known.

Remarks. A single specimen was extracted from a subtidal sample taken in the southern Atlantic Ocean, off South America ( Bartsch 1988c).