| Halacaridae | |
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| Agauopsis brevipalpus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Trombidiformes |
| Superfamily: | Halacaroidea |
| Family: | Halacaridae Murray, 1877 |
Halacaridae is a family of meiobenthic mites found in marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats around the world. It includes more than 1100 described species belonging to 64 genera [1][2] It is the largest marine radiation of arachnids.[3]
- ^ Durucan, Furkan (2018). "New record of the genus Scaptognathus (Acari: Halacaridae) from Antalya with a checklist of marine halacarid mites of Turkey". Turkish Journal of Zoology. 42 (4): 499–507. doi:10.3906/zoo-1803-6.
- ^ Bartsch, Ilse (2009). "Checklist of marine and freshwater halacarid mite genera and species (Halacaridae: Acari) with notes on synonyms, habitats, distribution and descriptions of the taxa" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1998: 1–170. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1998.1.1.
- ^ Pepato, Almir R.; Vidigal, Teofânia H.D.A.; Klimov, Pavel B. (2018). "Molecular phylogeny of marine mites (Acariformes: Halacaridae), the oldest radiation of extant secondarily marine animals". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 129: 182–188. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.08.012. PMID 30172010.