Vorticella convallaria Linnaeus, 1758

Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura & Pinto Utz, Laura R., 2018, A checklist of species of Vorticellidae (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) epibionts of crustaceans, Zootaxa 4500 (3), pp. 301-328 : 312

Vorticella convallaria Linnaeus, 1758

Known Distribution. Austria, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, and The Netherlands.

Hosts. Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus (cited as Asellus aquaticus ); Cambarellus (Cambarellus) zempoalensis (cited as Cambarellus montezumae zempoalensis ); Cyclocypris ovum ; Corophium curvispinum ; Cyclops strenuus strenuous (cited as Cyclops strenuous ); Cyclops viridis ; Gammarus pulex ; Gammarus tigrinus ; Lepidurus apus ; Lernaea cyprinacea ; Macrocyclops albidus (cited as Cyclops albidus ); Macrocyclops fuscus (cited as Cyclops fuscus ); Scapholeberis mucronata ; Sida crystallina ; Simocephalus vetulus ; Cyclops sp. ; Potamon sp. ; Cyclopidae .

References. Keiser 1921; Kahl 1935; Nenninger 1948; Stiller 1949 -1950, 1953; López-Ochoterena & Ochoa Gasca 1971; Green 1974; Piezik 1976; Bierhof & Ross 1977; van As & Viljoen 1984; Morado & Small 1995; Foissner 1996; Fernandez-Leborans & Tato-Porto 2000; Chatterjee et al. 2013.

Cited as Vorticella convallaria var. compacta by Nenninger (1948), Morado & Small (1995) and Green (1974) in Scapholeberis mucronata and Sida crystallina . Cited as Vorticella cyclopis by Kahl (1935), Nenninger (1948) and Morado & Small (1995) in Cyclopidae . Cited as Vorticella similis by Nenninger (1948) and by Morado & Small (1995) in Asellus (Asellus) aquaticus (cited as Asellus aquaticus ), Carinogammarus sp. and Cyclops sp.