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Actacarus pacificus Bartsch, 1979 
AphiaID: 406490

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Chelicerata (Subphylum) > Arachnida (Class) > Acarina (Order) > Prostigmata (Suborder) > Halacaroidea (Superfamily) > Halacaridae (Family) > Actacarus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Actacarus Schulz, 1937
Synonymised
taxa		  Actacarus marindicus Otto, 2000 (junior synonym)
 Actacarus orthotectus Newell, 1984 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Bartsch, I., 1979. Halacaridae (Acari) from Oahu Island (Hawaiian Archipelago). Ent. Mitt. zool. Mus. Hamb. 6: 231-241. [details]

additional source: Bartsch, I., 2003. Psammophilous halacarids (Halacaridae: Acari) from Dampier, Western Australia. Description of species and faunal comparison of the mesopsammal halacarid fauna of western and eastern Australia. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 22, 23-45. [details]

additional source: Abé, H,. 1997. Halacarid mites of the genus Actacarus (Acari: Halacaridae) from Hokkaido, Northern Japan. Species Divers. 2, 31-42. [details]

original description (from synonym): Otto, J.C., 2000. Acarochelopodia and Actacarus (Acari: Halacaridae) from northern Australia, with remarks on A. pacificus and A. orthotectus. Species Divers. 5, 111-127.  [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Newell, I.M. 1984. Antarctic Halacaroidea. Antarct. Res. Ser, 40: 1-284. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Australia [details]
Hawaiian Islands [details]
Hokkaido [details]
Tropical Pacific Ocean [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Habitat: shallow [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:406490
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-06-29 09:58:55Z  created  Bartsch, Ilse
  
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  Citation: Bartsch, I. (2013). Actacarus pacificus Bartsch, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406490 on 2013-06-19
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