Tetrahymena hydrae (Entz, 1912)

Chatterjee, Tapas, Dovgal, Igor & Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio, 2021, A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on cnidarians, Zootaxa 5039 (2), pp. 151-178 : 165

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scientific name	Tetrahymena hydrae (Entz, 1912)
status

Treatment

= Balantidium hydrae Entz, 1912

Record as epibiont on cnidarians: Jankowski (2007) has found this species on Hydra baikalensis Swarczewsky, 1923 from Baikal Lake ( Russia).

Remarks: The species B. hydrae was transferred into the genus Tetrahymena by Jankowski (2007).

References

Jankowski, A. V. (2007) Review of taxa Phylum Ciliophora Doflein, 1901. In: Alimov, A. F. (Ed.), Protista: Handbook on Zoology. Pt. 2. Nauka, St. Petersburg, pp. 415 - 993.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Chromista
Phylum	Ciliophora
Class	Oligohymenophorea
Order	Hymenostomatida
Family	Tetrahymenidae
Genus	Tetrahymena

Specimens