A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on cnidarians
Author
Chatterjee, Tapas
Near Harimandir Road, Dhanbad 826001, Jharkhand, India.
Author
Dovgal, Igor
A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2, Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia.
Author
Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio
Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C / José Antonio Novais, 12, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-15
5039
2
151
178
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5039.2.1
1175-5326
5508963
C2B00051-A562-4FCA-83D5-DE284D0D90CE
Ophryodendron abietinum
Claparède & Lachmann, 1859
Record as epibiont on cnidarians:
This species was reported as epibiont on polyparies of
Sertularia
,
Plumularia
and other hydrozoans from the coast of
Norway
(
Claparède & Lachmann 1859
).
Hincks (1873)
reported this species on hydroid
Halecium halecinum
Linnaeus, 1758
from Menai Straits near Bangor, Devonshire,
UK
. It was also found on hydroids
Obelia commissuralis
and
O. geniculata
from Woods Hole,
USA
(
Root 1922
). Recently it has been found on the colonies of hydroid polyp
O. longissima
(Pallas, 1766)
in the White Sea (
Belokon
et al
. 2020
;
Khabibulina
et al.
2021
).
Remarks:
The species was found on cnidarians only and has not been recorded on any other host.