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Keywords: In all climatic regions, the littoral fauna includes soil mites as a characteristic component. Life conditions in littoral zones are dominated by flood-tide. Different feeding habits with the small or wider range of specialization exist among littoral soil mites. The mite fauna consists chiefly of carnivorous, algivorous, and fungivorous species.