Porohalacarus alpinus Thor, 1910

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 : 160

Porohalacarus alpinus Thor, 1910

Syns.: Halacarus alpinus Thor, 1910 , Halacarus alpinus decaporus Walter, 1919 , Halacarus (Porohalacarus) alpinus var. duodecimpora Thor, 1923 , Halacarus octoporus Viets, 1924 , Porohalacarus vietsi Thor, 1922

Records associated with decapod crustaceans – This species was reported on cray fish Astacus astacus (syn.: Potamobius astacus ) from Germany ( Viets 1927). This species was also found on branchial cavity of cray fish Astacus astacus and Orconectes limosus from Poland ( Wiszniewski 1939). It was also reported on branchial cavity of Orconectes limosus from River In and Lake Ińsko, Poland ( Zawal 1998). This species was found on chelipeds of Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis from freshwater water, Germany ( Normant et al. 2013).

Other records – Common in oligotrophic and mesotrophic waters; present amongst mosses, vascular plants, on bryozoans, between shells of Dreissena (Bivalvia) ( Bartsch 2006b).