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
Cothurnia trophoniae
Dons, 1946
Record as epibiont on cnidarians:
The species was registered under synonymic name
Cothurnia pedunculata
Dons,
1918
in the Kiel Bay (the North Sea) on the cnidarian
Gonothyraea loveni
(as
Laomedea loveni
) (
Precht 1935
).
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 brevirostris
Johnston,
1837
in the Kiel Bay (the North Sea) (
Precht 1935
). The species was also found on alga
Enteromorpha flexuosa
(Wulfen) J. Agardh,
1883
in 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 sivashensis
Meyer,
1922
in the Sivash Bay (the Sea of Azov) (
Sergeeva
et al
. 2020
).