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Published December 23, 2020 | Version v1
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Paracineta saifulae

  • 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

Paracineta saifulae (Mereschkowsky, 1877)

Report as epibiont on bryozoans: This species was reported as epibiont on bryozoan Triticella sp attached to crab from Mandovi-Zuari River mouth, Goa, West coast of India, Arabian Sea (Chatterjee et al. 2020c).

Report as epibiont on other hosts/substrata: The species was described by Mereschkowsky (1877) from Bay of Onega and the shore of Terski in White Sea near the Rem (Russia) on the hydroid Leptoscyphus grigoriewi Mereschkowsky, 1877 and on gravel and shells, under the name Acineta saifulae. The same species was independently described by Fraipont (1878) on the hydroid Campanularia volubilis (Linnaeus, 1758) from Belgian coast of the Northern Sea near Ostend as Acineta crenata. The species was mentioned by Collin (1912) in the name combination Paracineta crenata, as found on hydroid Leuckartiara octona (Fleming, 1823) and polychaete Aphrodite aculeata Linnaeus, 1761 from French coast of the Mediterranean Sea near Sète. The species was also found in the Black Sea near Bulgarian coast and at Russian coast near Gelendzhik at the artificial substrates (glass slides) (Dovgal 2013).

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 550, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4387921

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Acinetidae
Genus
Paracineta
Kingdom
Chromista
Order
Suctorida
Phylum
Ciliophora
Scientific name authorship
Mereschkowsky
Species
saifulae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Paracineta saifulae (Mereschkowsky, 1877) sec. Chatterjee & Dovgal, 2020

References

  • Mereschkowsky, C. (1877) Studies on the Protozoa of Northern Russia. Travaux de la Societe des Naturalistses a St. Petersburg, 8 (3), 203 - 385. [in Russian]
  • Fraipont, J. (1878) Recherches sur les Acinetiens de la cote d'Ostende. P. 3. Bulletins de l'Academie royale des sciences, des letters et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 45, 287 - 297.
  • Collin, B. (1912) Etudes monographiques sur les Acinetiens. 2. Morphologie, Physiologie, Systematique. Archives de zoologie experimentale et generale, 51, 1 - 457.
  • Dovgal, I. V. (2013) Fauna of Ukraine: in 40 Vols. Vol. 36. Ciliates-Ciliophora. Issue 1. Class Suctorea. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 267 pp. [in Russian with English summary]