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

Halacaridae Murray, 1877

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthohalacarus Bartsch, 2001
Acarochelopodia Angelier, 1954
Acaromantis Trouessart & Neumann, 1893
Actacarus Schulz, 1937
Agaue Lohmann, 1889
Agauides Bartsch, 1988
Agauopsis Viets, 1927
Aletes
Anomalohalacarus Newell, 1949
Arhodeoporus Newell, 1947
Atelopsalis Trouessart, 1896
Bathyhalacarus Sokolov & Yankovskaya, 1968
Bradyagaue Newell, 1971
Camactognathus Newell, 1984
Coloboceras Trouessart, 1889
Colobocerasides Viets, 1950
Copidognathides Bartsch, 1976
Copidognathinae
Halacarellus Viets, 1927
Halacaropsis Bartsch, 1996
Halacarus Gosse, 1855
Isobactrinae
Leptognathus
Leptopsalis
Limnohalacarinae
Lohmanellinae
Lohmannella Trouessart, 1901
Makarovana Kocak & Kemal, 2008
Metarhombognathus Newell, 1947
Pachygnathus Duges
Parhalixodes Laubier, 1960
Pelacarus Bartsch, 1986
Plegadognathus Morselli, 1981
Porohalacarinae
Porolohmanellinae
Rhombognathides Viets, 1927
Rhombognathopsis Viets, 1927
Rhombognathus Trouessart, 1888
Scaptognathus Trouessart, 1889
Simognathus Trouessart, 1889
Thalassarachna Packard, 1871
Werthella Lohmann, 1907

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: zeemijten
 English: sea mites sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.
 German: Meeresmilben sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.
 Japanese: ウシオダニ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Norwegian: sjømidd sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: sjømidd sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Nynorsk: sjømidd

Literature

original description

Murray, A., 1877. Economic Entomology. Aptera. South Kensington Museum Handbooks, 433 pp.

basis of record

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

Green, J.; MacQuitty, M. (1987). Halacarid mites (Arachnida: Acari): keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series), 36. E.J. Brill/W. Backhuys: London. ISBN 90-048196-8. VII, 178 pp.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Halacaridae Murray, 1877. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1484

Dr. Wojciech Magowski. Halacaridae Murray, 1877. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/21638abe-20eb-4e92-8589-97652e39a4bb

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2019-05-24 by Dr. Wojciech Magowski & by Dr. Reinhard Gerecke & by Ilse Bartsch

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