Thalassarachna basteri (Johnston, 1836)

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 : 161

Thalassarachna basteri (Johnston, 1836)

Syns.: Acarus basteri Johnston, 1836 , Halacarus ctenopus Gosse, 1855 , Thalassarachna verrilli Packard, 1871 , Halacarus spinifer Lohmann, 1889 , Halacarus globosus Trouessart, 1889 , Halacarus (Halacarellus) basteri (Johnston, 1836) - Viets 1927, Halacarellus basteri var. septentrionalis Gimbel, 1938 , Halacarus (Thalassarachna) basteri (Johnston, 1836) - Newell 1947

Records associated with decapod crustaceans – This species was found amongst cuticular structures of spider crab Libinia emarginata (Arthropoda, Crustacea, Malacostraca, Decapoda ) from Rhode Island, USA ( Bartsch 1979a).

Other records – This species occurred on various algae, among sediments, on colonial hydroids, and on ectoproct polyzoans in Arctic Sea, Baltic Sea, Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe, Mediterannean and Black Sea, UK from intertidal to more than 100m depth ( Newell 1947; Green and MacQuitty 1987; Bartsch 1982).