A checklist of suctorian epibiont ciliates (Ciliophora) found on meiobenthic marine nematodes
Author
Dovgal, Tapas Chatterjee ı Igor
Author
Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio
text
Journal of Natural History
2019
2019-11-26
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33
2133
2143
journal article
24124
10.1080/00222933.2019.1692085
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1464-5262
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Loricophrya bosporica
Sergeeva and Dovgalı 2016
Report as epibiont on nematodes
Individuals of
Desmoscolex minutus
Claparèdeı 1863
were infected with
Lorycophrya
bosporica
suctorians from Istanbul Strait’ s areaı Bosporus regionı the Black Sea (
Sergeeva and Dovgal 2016
).
Loricophrya bosporica
was also found on
Metachromadoroides remanei
(Gerlachı 1951)
from the Ria
Formosa
lagoonı Southern
Portugal
(
Ivanova et al. 2017
).
Remarks
L. bosporica
was found both in the anoxic zone of the Black Sea and in methane seeps; hence it might be characterised as extremophile.