A checklist of ciliate epibionts (Ciliophora) found on bryozoans Author Chatterjee, Tapas Crescent International School, Bario, Govindpur, Dhanbad 828109, 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. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-12-23 4896 4 547 559 journal article 9202 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.4.6 76a7a44e-e0b9-483c-980e-5f60650a6d4d 1175-5326 4387921 B08FDF97-77DC-407F-8FF1-639334C360AC Vorticella striata Dujardin, 1841 Report as epibiont on bryozoans: This species was reported as epibiont on marine bryozoan Einhornia crustulenta (Pallas, 1766) (reported as Membraneipora crustulenta ) in Kiel Bay, the North Sea ( Precht 1935 ). Report as epibiont on other hosts/substrata: It was reported as epibiont on variey of hosts from the North Sea eg. on fish: Gasterosteus aculeatus ; mollusca: Hydrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803) ; on decapod: Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758) ; on crustacean, mysid: Neomysis integer (Leach, 1814) (reported as Neomysis vulgaris ); on isopods: Idotea chelipes (Pallas, 1766) (reported as Idothea viridis ), Sphaeroma rugicaudum , Seifert, 1938 etc (( Precht 1935 ). This species is distributed on various hosts (mainly crustacean) from Germany , Mexico , Finland , UK , USA , Denmark , Italy , Finland , Germany , Greenland and Czech Republic , Netherland etc ( Chatterjee et al . 2020a ).