Ephelota gemmipara
Description
Ephelota gemmipara (Hertwig, 1876)
= Podophrya gemmipara Hertwig, 1876, p. 24
= Hemiophrya gemmipara (Hertwig, 1876) Kent, 1881
= Dendrophrya gemmipara (Hertwig, 1876) Sand, 1895
= Alderia apiculosa Pritchard, 1852
= Ephelota apiculosa (Pritchard, 1852) Wright, 1858
= Podophrya pusilla Koch, 1876
= Hemiophrya pusilla (Koch, 1876) Kent, 1881
= Podophrya benedeni Fraipont, 1878
= Hemiophrya microsoma Maupas, 1881
= Ephelota crustaceorum (Haller, 1878) Yagiu, 1980
Record as epibiont on ostracods: The species recently was found on C. dentata in the offshore of Arabian Sea (Chatterjee et al. 2019b).
Record as epibiont on other hosts: Ubiquitous species, observed colonizing inanimate substrates, algae, hydroids, bryozoans, etc. (Dovgal 2013).This species was also found as epibiont on various copepods eg., Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1765), Candacia armata (Boeck, 1872), Pleuromamma borealis (F. Dahl, 1893) and P. gracilis (Claus, 1863) (Steuer1928; Rose 1924; Fernandez-Leborans & Tato-Porto 2000b). Santhakumari (1985) reported this species as epibiont on copepods Euchaeta marina (Prestandrea, 1833), Candacia tuberculata Wolfenden, 1905, Labidocera acuta (Dana, 1849), Undinula vulgaris (Dana, 1849), other two copepods of genera Pontella and Labidocera (species name written wrongly) and commented that this suctorian was found infesting chiefly the postero-dorsal region of cephalothorax. Santhakumari (1986b) reported this species as epibiont on the zoea of pea crab Porcellana sp.
Remarks: This species has been reported from variety of host and substrates.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ephelotidae
- Genus
- Ephelota
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Order
- Exogenida
- Phylum
- Ciliophora
- Scientific name authorship
- Hertwig
- Species
- gemmipara
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ephelota gemmipara (Hertwig, 1876) sec. Chatterjee, Dovgal, Mayén-Estrada & Fernandez-Leborans, 2020
References
- Kent W. S. (1881) A manual of the Infusoria, including a description of all known Flagellata, Ciliated and Tentaculiferous Protozoa British and foreign, and an account of the organization and affinities of the sponges. Vol. 2. D. Bogue, London, 441 pp. [pp. 473 - 913] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 1243
- Chatterjee, T., Dovgal, I., Nanajkar, M. & Fernandes, V. (2019 b) Report of epibiont ciliates (Cilliophora: Suctorea) on pelagic ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from the Arabian Sea. Zootaxa, 4695 (4), 378 - 384. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4695.4.5
- 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]
- Fernandez-Leborans, G. & Tato-Porto, M. L. (2000 b) A review of the species of protozoan epibionts on crustaceans. II. Suctorian ciliates. Crustaceana, 73, 1205 - 1237. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 156854000505209
- Santhakumari, V. (1986 b) Epizoic and ectoparasitic protozoans from crab larvae. Mahasagar-Bulletin of the National Institute of Oceanography, 19 (1), 65 - 67.