A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on cnidarians
Chatterjee, Tapas
Dovgal, Igor
Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio
Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-15
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Dons, 1946
Dons
1946
[151,561,835,862]
Oligohymenophorea
Vaginicolidae
Cothurnia
Chromista
Peritrichida
16
167
Ciliophora
species
trophoniae
Record as epibiont on other hosts:This species was also found as epibiont on alga Polysiphonia violacea(Roth) Sprengel, 1827, on polychaetes Trophonia plumosa(Müller, 1771)and Stylarioides plumosa(O.F. Müller, 1776), and on pantopod Pallene brevirostrisJohnston, 1837in the Kiel Bay (the North Sea) ( Precht 1935). The species was also found on alga Enteromorpha flexuosa(Wulfen) J. Agardh, 1883in Tamiahua Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico( Aladro-Lubel et al. 2006). In addition, the species was registered in the Baltic Sea ( Mironova et al. 2009). Recently, the species was found on the green filamentous algae Cladophora sivashensisMeyer, 1922in the Sivash Bay (the Sea of Azov) ( Sergeeva et al. 2020).