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Cothurnia fecunda Stokes 1893

  • 1. Near Harimandir Road, Dhanbad 826001, Jharkhand, India.
  • 2. A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2, Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia.
  • 3. Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C / José Antonio Novais, 12, 28040, Madrid, Spain.

Description

Cothurnia fecunda Stokes, 1893

Record as epibiont on cnidarians: It was reported on hydroids from Pacific coast of Canada (Wailes 1943; Mccazuley & Hancock 1971).

Record as epibiont on other hosts: This species was found attached to filamentous algae in North American canal water (Warren & Paynter 1991). This species was also registered on algae, harpacticoid copepods of the genus Diosaccus and polychaete worm Pherusa papillata (Johnson, 1901) (as Trophonia papillata) from Pacific coast of Canada (Wailes 1943).

Notes

Published as part of Chatterjee, Tapas, Dovgal, Igor & Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio, 2021, A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on cnidarians, pp. 151-178 in Zootaxa 5039 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5039.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5508963

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References

  • Wailes, G. H. (1943) Canadian Pacific fauna. 1. Protozoa. 1 f. Ciliata. 1 g. Suctoria. University of Toronto Press, Toronro, 46 pp.
  • Mccazuley, J. E. & Hancock, D. R. (1971) Appendix 8. Annotated checklist of plants and animals. In: Oceanography of the Nearshore Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest. Vol. 2. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, pp. 165 - 744.
  • Warren, A. & Paynter, J. (1991) A revision of Cothurnia (Ciliophora, Peritrichida) and its morphological relatives. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 57 (1), 17 - 59.