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 Key for identification of suctorian ciliates belong to the genus Rhabdophrya 1(4) Macronucleus ellipsoidal. 2(3) Stalk long, provided with physon................................................. Rhabdophrya mumbaiensis n. sp. 3(2) Stalk short, provided with epicone....................................................... Rhabdophrya trimorpha . 4(1) Macronucleus ribbon-like. 5(6) Stalk long, but its length does not exceed half the length of the body, without widening.............. Rhabdophrya truncata . 6(7) Stalk short, with epicone. 7(8) Body converged to the top............................................................ Rhabdophrya populiformis . 8(7) Body not converged to the top.......................................................... Rhabdophrya nymphonis .