Podophrya Ehrenberg, 1834

Ramírez-Ballesteros, Mireya & Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura, 2019, Suctorians (Ciliophora: Suctoria) as epibionts of decapods of families Cambaridae and Pseudothelphusidae, Zootaxa 4648 (2), pp. 384-392 : 390

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.2.11
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5619159
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scientific name	Podophrya Ehrenberg, 1834
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GENUS Podophrya Ehrenberg, 1834

Podophrya maupasi Butschli, 1889

The body is spherical with 16 tentacles distributed over the entire body surface; without a lorica; the stalk is about the same length as the trophont; the macronucleus is spherical and is situated in the central part of the body; contractile vacuole near to the apical region. Known previous records. There are no worldwide previous records on crustaceans, this is the first.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Protozoa
Phylum	Ciliophora
Class	Kinetofragminophora
Order	Suctorida
Family	Podophryidae

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