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Metephelota excavata
Creators
- 1. Crescent International School, Bario, Govindpur, Dhanbad 828109, Jharkhand, India.
- 2. A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2, Nakhimov ave, Sevastopol, 299011, Russia.
Description
Metephelota excavata (Dons, 1938)
Report as epibiont on bryozoans: This species was reported as epibiont on bryozoans from the Folden fjord north of Bodø, Norway (Dons 1938).
Report as epibiont on other hosts: The species was also found on hydroids from the same locality (Dons 1938).
Remarks: Dovgal (2002) transferred the species Podocyathus excavatus Dons, 1938 into genus Metephelota.
Notes
Published as part of Chatterjee, Tapas & Dovgal, Igor, 2020, A checklist of ciliate epibionts (Ciliophora) found on bryozoans, pp. 547-559 in Zootaxa 4896 (4) on page 549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4387921
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ephelotidae
- Genus
- Metephelota
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Order
- Suctorida
- Phylum
- Ciliophora
- Scientific name authorship
- Dons
- Species
- excavata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metephelota excavata (Dons, 1938) sec. Chatterjee & Dovgal, 2020
References
- Dons, C. (1938) Podocyathus excavatus n. sp. eine neue Suctorie. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab Forhadlinger, 10, 169 - 172.
- Dovgal, I. V. (2002) Evolution, phylogeny and classification of Suctorea (Ciliophora). Protistology, 2 (4), 194 - 270.