Rhabdophrya populiformis
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- 2. 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
- 3. Laboratory for Benthic Ecological Trait Analysis (L-BETA), Biological Oceanography Division, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, RegionalCentre, Mumbai - 400053, India.
Description
Rhabdophrya populiformis (Gassovsky, 1916)
(Fig. 4 F)
= Dendrosomides populiformis Gassovsky, 1916
Diagnosis: Aloricate suctorian ciliate with elongated, converged to the top, very slightly laterally flattened, stalked cell body. Few in number, rod-like tentacles arranged in groups along the lateral edge of body. Stalk short, provided with epicone. Macronucleus long, ribbon-like. Reproduction by vermigemmic budding.
Measurements (in µm, after Kahl 1934): Body length 220–247, stalk length 55–90.
Type locality: Kola Bay of the Barents Sea (Gassovsky 1916).
Type hosts: Halecium sp.
Other hosts and localities: This was also reported on Idotea sp., Cabere aellisii (Fleming, 1814) from Kola Bay of the Barents Sea (Gassovsky 1916); on bryozoans and algae from the Barents Sea near Murmansk (Jankowski 2007; Chatterjeee & Dovgal 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rhabdophryidae
- Genus
- Rhabdophrya
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Order
- Suctorida
- Phylum
- Ciliophora
- Scientific name authorship
- Gassovsky
- Species
- populiformis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhabdophrya populiformis (Gassovsky, 1916) sec. Chatterjee, Dovgal & Sautya, 2022
References
- Gassovsky, G. N. (1916) Sur la faune des Infusoires du golf de Kola et de ses environs. Travaux de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Petrograd, Section de Zoologie et Physiologie, 45 (4), 139 - 215. [in Russian]
- Kahl, A. (1934) Suctoria. In: Grimpe G. & Wagler E. (Eds.): Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. 26, 184 - 226.
- Jankowski, A. V. (2007) Review of taxa Phylum Ciliophora Doflein, 1901. In: Alimov, A. F. (Ed.), Protista: Handbook on Zoology. Part 2. Nauka, St. Petersburg, pp. 415 - 993. [in Russian]
- Chatterjeee, T. & Dovgal, I. (2020) Checklist of ciliate epibionts (Ciliophora) found on bryozoans. Zootaxa, 4896 (4), 547 - 559. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4896.4.6