Trematosoma complatana ( Gruber, 1884 )

Chatterjee, Tapas & Dovgal, Igor, 2020, A checklist of ciliate epibionts (Ciliophora) found on bryozoans, Zootaxa 4896 (4), pp. 547-559 : 552

Trematosoma complatana ( Gruber, 1884)

Report as epibiont on bryozoans: The species was observed on bryozoans from the Mediterranean Sea near Sette, France ( Collin 1912).

Record as epibiont on other hosts/substrata: The species under name Acineta complatana was described on hydroid Halecium beanie (Johnston, 1838) , collected near Genova, Italy ( Gruber 1884). Later the species was observed at artificial substrates (glass slides) exposited in the Black Sea near Gelentzyk ( Dovgal 2013). The species was also found on glass slides exposited near Quingdao, China ( Chen et al. 2005).

Remarks: The species was transferred into genus Tramatosoma by Dovgal (2002).