Halacarellus petiti ( Angelier, 1950 )

Chatterjee, Tapas, 2021, A checklist of halacarid mites (Acari: Halacaridae) associated with decapod crustaceans (Arthropoda, Crustacea, Decapoda), Persian Journal of Acarology 10 (2), pp. 155-166 : 159

Halacarellus petiti ( Angelier, 1950)

Syns.: Halacarus (Halacarellus) petiti Angelier, 1950 , Thalassarachna petiti ( Angelier, 1950) - Green & MacQuitty (1987), Halacarellus balticus - Pahnke (1974)

Records associated with decapod crustaceans – This species was found on chelipeds of Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis from brackish water, Poland ( Normant et al. 2013).

Other records – This species was recorded from eastern North Atlantic, Baltic, Mediterranean in Shallow water among various substrata, often soft sediment, epibenthic in and on sediment amongst roots of vascular plants, green algae and tubes of an associated fauna, found from brackish to almost fresh water ( Angelier 1950, Bartsch 1976a, 1979b; Morselli and Mari 1979; Green & MacQuitty 1987).