A new species of genus Rhabdophrya (Ciliophora: Suctorea) from the west coast of India and comments on the genus taxonomy Author Chatterjee, Tapas Near Hari Mandir Road, Hirapur, Dhanbad 826004, Jharkhand, India. Author Dovgal, Igor 0000-0002-3876-233X A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, 2, Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia. dovgal- 1954 @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3876 - 233 X dovgal-1954@mail.ru Author Sautya, Sabyasachi Laboratory for Benthic Ecological Trait Analysis (L-BETA), Biological Oceanography Division, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, RegionalCentre, Mumbai - 400053, India. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-08-26 5178 3 293 300 journal article 133195 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.3.8 ddac3b9b-b588-4a14-9ad9-f8040b6e3004 1175-5326 7026320 E728A17A-FD81-41AF-9300-70C2C8263C85 Rhabdophrya populiformis ( Gassovsky, 1916 ) ( Fig. 4 F ) = Dendrosomides populiformis Gassovsky, 1916 Diagnosis: Aloricate suctorian ciliate with elongated, converged to the top, very slightly laterally flattened, stalked cell body. Few in number, rod-like tentacles arranged in groups along the lateral edge of body. Stalk short, provided with epicone. Macronucleus long, ribbon-like. Reproduction by vermigemmic budding. Measurements (in µm, after Kahl 1934 ): Body length 220–247, stalk length 55–90. Type locality: Kola Bay of the Barents Sea ( Gassovsky 1916 ). Type hosts: Halecium sp. Other hosts and localities: This was also reported on Idotea sp. , Cabere aellisii (Fleming, 1814) from Kola Bay of the Barents Sea ( Gassovsky 1916 ); on bryozoans and algae from the Barents Sea near Murmansk ( Jankowski 2007; Chatterjeee & Dovgal 2020 ).