Thecacineta

Dovgal, Igor, Chatterjee, Tapas & Ingole, Baban, 2008, An overview of Suctorian ciliates (Ciliophora, Suctorea) as epibionts of halacarid mites (Acari, Halacaridae), Zootaxa 1810, pp. 60-68 : 65

Thecacineta spp.

Grimaldi (1965) reported Thecacineta sp. on Act . pygmaeus Schulz from Sardinia. Furthermore, the unidentified suctorian species observed ( Bartsch 1994) on Halacarellus auzendei (Bartsch) from a deep sea (3500 m) Atlantic Ocean sample probably belonged to the genus Thecacineta . However, Bartsch’s (1994) illustration was insufficient for species identification. It is possible that it represents a new suctorian species.

Figures of a suctorian in an SEM photomicrograph of Cop. laevisetosus Chatterjee, Lee & Chang (Chatterjee et al. 2004) suggest that it is a species belonging to the genus Thecacineta .