A checklist of marine littoral mites (Acari) associated with mangroves Author Chatterjee, Tapas Author Pfingstl, Tobias Author Pešić, Vladimir text Zootaxa 2018 2018-07-02 4442 2 221 240 journal article 29765 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.2.2 2fd4131b-a97f-49ec-93f2-5e24f4385d14 1175-5326 1303078 54AD9AAE-3106-4875-82FD-07A77427FB16 Rhizophobates shimojanai Karasawa & Aoki, 2005 Records associated with mangroves: Okukubi River , Kin Town , Okinawa Island, Japan , algae on knee roots of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and from algae on mangrove forest floor ( Karasawa & Aoki 2005 ). Distribution: Japan . Remarks: Subías (2004) transferred this species to the genus Thalassozetes but did not provide any explanation for this transfer and only published it in his online catalogue therefore this taxonomic act should be rejected ( Pfingstl & Schuster 2012a ).