Protistology • 14 (2) 84–88 (2020) |
Report of ciliate epibionts (Ciliophora) on meiobenthic invertebrates from Indian coast near Karwar, Karnataka |
Tapas Chatterjee1, Igor Dovgal2 and Mandar Nanajkar3
1 Crescent International School, Bario, Govindpur, Dhanbad 828109, Jharkhand, India
| Submitted March 16, 2020 | Accepted April 17, 2020 | Summary The article describes four epibiont suctorian ciliates, viz. Thecacineta cothurnioides (Collin, 1909) and Trematosoma rotunda (Allgén, 1952) on the nematode Tricoma sp., Thecacineta calix (Schröder, 1907) and Acineta tuberosa Ehrenberg, 1834 on the harpacticoid copepod, from the Karwar coast of India (Karnataka state), the Arabian Sea. Trematosoma rotunda is reported here first time as epibiont on the genus Tricoma representative. The systematic positions of the found suctorian species, their brief descriptions, measurements, and data on their distribution, hosts and localisations at the host body are presented.
Key words: ciliate epibiont, marine meiobenthos, India, Suctorea
Address for correspondence: Igor Dovgal. A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas RAS, Nakhimov Ave. 2, Sevastopol, 299011, Russia; e-mail: dovgal-1954@mail.ru |
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