Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Chelicerata > Class Arachnida > Subclass Micrura > Subclass Acari > Superorder Actinotrichida > Suborder Prostigmata > Superfamily Halacaroidea > Family Halacaridae

Metarhombognathus Newell, 1947

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Metarhombognathus armatus (Lohmann, 1893)
Metarhombognathus nudus (Viets, 1928)

Literature

original description	Newell, I. M. (1947). A systematic and ecological study of the Halacaridae of eastern North America. Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll. 10: 1-232.
basis of record	Bartsch, I., 2001. Acarina - Halacaridae, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 237-241
additional source	Abé, H. (1998). Rhombognathine Mites. Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Biogeography. Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo. 219 pp.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Bartsch, I., 2006. Halacaroidea (Acari): a guide to marine genera. Org. Divers. Evol. 6(2): 103-108.