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Podocyathus diadema Kent 1881

  • 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

Podocyathus diadema Kent, 1881

Record as epibiont on bryozoans: The species was found on Bryozoa from St. Heliers, Jersey, UK (Kent 1881).

Report as epibiont on other hosts: The species was originally described found on hydroids and tunicate of genus Polyzoa from St. Heliers, Jersey, UK (Kent 1881). This species was also observed on hydroids from Roscoff and Concarneau (Atlantic coast of France), Nieuwport (Belgium), the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea (Kahl 1934).

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

Biodiversity

Family
Euplotidae
Genus
Podocyathus
Kingdom
Protozoa
Order
Euplotida
Phylum
Ciliophora
Scientific name authorship
Kent
Species
diadema
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Podocyathus diadema Kent, 1881 sec. Chatterjee & Dovgal, 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, London, II, 473 - 913. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 1243
  • Kahl, A. (1934) Suctoria. In: Grimpe, G. & Wagler, E. (Eds.), Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee, 26, uun 184 - 226.