Zoothamnium alternans Claparede & Lachmann 1859
Creators
- 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
Zoothamnium alternans Claparède & Lachmann, 1859
Report as epibiont on bryozoans: This species was reported as epibiont on marine bryozoan Crisia eburnean (Linnaeus, 1758) in Kiel Bay, the North Sea (Precht 1935). In addition, this species was also reported on the basal part of mature bryozoan Bugula sp., obtained from Woods Hole harbor (Summers 1938).
Report as epibiont on other hosts: It is cosmopolitan species reported from Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean (Kahl 1935; Summers 1938; Ji et al. 2006; Ma & Overstreet 2006; Munir & Sun 2018). It was reported on crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 from Gulf of Mexico (Ma & Overstreet 2006). It was also recorded from Woods Hole harbor attached with hydroids Pennaria sp. and Tubularia sp. (Summers 1938).
Remarks: The species was found as planktonic in the North Sea. It is Kahl’s (1935) opinion, that these colonies were broken away from substrates. It was also found as plankton at 200 m depth in the the Bay of Bengal (Munir & Sun 2018).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Zoothamniidae
- Genus
- Zoothamnium
- Kingdom
- Protozoa
- Order
- Peritrichida
- Phylum
- Ciliophora
- Scientific name authorship
- Claparede & Lachmann
- Species
- alternans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zoothamnium alternans Claparede, 1859 sec. Chatterjee & Dovgal, 2020
References
- Precht, H. (1935) Epizoen der Kieler Bucht. Nova Acta Leopoldina, 3, 405 - 474.
- Summers, F. M. (1938) Some aspects of normal development in the colonial ciliate Zoothamnium alternans. Biology Bulletin, 74, 117 - 129. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1537891
- Kahl, A. (1935) Wimpertiere oder Ciliata (lnfusoria), eine Bearbeitung der freilebenden und ectocommensalen Infusorien der Erde, unter Ausschlussder marinen Tintinnidae. 4. Peritricha und Chonotricha. In: Grimpe, G. & Wagler, E. (Eds.), Die Tierwelt der Nord und Ostsee, 30, pp. 651 - 886.
- Ji, D. D., Song, W. B. & Warren, A. (2006) Redescriptions of three marine peritrichous ciliates, Zoothamnium alternans Claparede et Lachmann, 1859, Z. sinense Song, 1991 and Z. commune Kahl, 1933 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia), from North China. Acta Protozoologica, 45 (1), 27 - 39.
- Ma, H. W. & Overstreet, R. M. (2006) Two new species of Epistylis (Ciliophora: Peritrichida) on the Blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 53 (2), 85 - 95. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1550 - 7408.2005.00080. x
- Munir, S. & Sun, J. (2018) The first snapshot study on horizontal distribution and identification of five peritrich ciliates (Genus Vorticella Linnaeus and Zoothamnium Bory de St. Vincent) from the eastern Indian Ocean. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 37,79 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 13131 - 018 - 1303 - 4