Ephelota sp.

Chatterjee, Tapas, Dovgal, Igor & Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio, 2021, A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on cnidarians, Zootaxa 5039 (2), pp. 151-178 : 159

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Ephelota sp.
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Ephelota sp.

Record as epibiont on cnidarians: The unidentified species of genus Ephelota were found on hydroid Eudendrium racemosum (Cavolini, 1785) in Ligurian Sea ( Bavestrello et al. 2008); on Tubularia sp. ( Riley & Katz 2001) and on Ectopleura sp. ( Tazioli & Di Camillo 2013).

Bavestrello, G., Cerrano, C., Di Camillo, C., Puce, S., Romagnoli, T., Tazioli, S. & Totti, C. (2008) The ecology of protists epibiontic on marine hydroids. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88 (8), 1611 - 1617. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0025315408001665

Riley, J. L. & Katz, L. A. (2001) Wide spread distribution of extensive chromosomal fragmentation in ciliates. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 18, 1372 - 1377. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / oxfordjournals. molbev. a 003921

Tazioli, S. & Di Camillo, C. G. (2013) Ecological and morphological characteristics of Ephelota gemmipara (Ciliophora, Suctoria), epibiontic on Eudendrium racemosum (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Adriatic Sea. European Journal of Protistology, 49 (4), 590 - 599. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ejop. 2013.04.006