Copidognathus gasconi ( Gil & Garzón, 1979 )

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 : 156-157

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.22073/pja.v10i2.65624
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scientific name	Copidognathus gasconi ( Gil & Garzón, 1979 )
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Copidognathus gasconi ( Gil & Garzón, 1979)

Syn.: Velardoacarus gasconi Gil & Garzón, 1979

Records associated with decapod crustaceans – This species was reported from gill chamber of a marine crab Peltarion spinulosum ( Crustacea: Decapoda ) in Uruguayan coast ( Gil and Garzón 1979).

Remarks – There was question on the validity of the genus Velardoacarus . Bartsch (1987) commented that Veladacarus could also be a Copidognathus species. Pepato et al. (2005) stated that

the description of Velardoacarus gasconi has a lot of inaccuracies and it is possible that Velardeacarus is a junior synonymous of Copidognathus . Bartsch (2009) kept this species under the genus Copidognathus as Copidognathus gasconi ( Gil and Garzón 1979) .