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.
text
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
Metephelota excavata
(
Dons, 1938
)
Record as epibiont on cnidarians:
The species was originally described on hydroids from the Folden fjord is north of Bodø,
Norway
(
Dons 1938
).
Record as epibiont on other hosts:
The species was also found on bryozoans from the same locality (
Dons 1938
).
Remarks:
Dovgal (2002)
transferred the species
Podocyathus excavatus
Dons, 1938
into genus
Metephelota
.