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.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-12-23
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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
).