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
Ephelota plana
Wailes, 1925
Record as epibiont on cnidarians:
It has been reported on hydroids from Strait of
Georgia
(
Wailes 1943
;
Mccazuley & Hancock 1971
).
Record as epibiont on other hosts:
The species was also registered on algae from Strait of
Georgia
(
Wailes 1943
;
Mccazuley & Hancock 1971
).
Endo
et al
. (2017)
found
E. plana
on krill
Euphausia pacifica
Hansen, 1911
collected in Saanich Inlet,
Canada
.
Remarks:
The identification of
Ephelota plana
on copepod
Centropages orsinii
Giesbrecht, 1889
and other copepods by Purushothaman, J.
et al
. (2020) is erroneous; probably this species will be
Acineta euchaetae
Sewell, 1951
.