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Issue: Vol. 5178 No. 3: 26 Aug. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-08-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.3.8
Page range: 393-400
Abstract views: 319
PDF downloaded: 18

A new species of genus Rhabdophrya (Ciliophora: Suctorea) from the west coast of India and comments on the genus taxonomy

Near Hari Mandir Road, Hirapur, Dhanbad 826004, Jharkhand, India.
A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, 2, Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia.
Laboratory for Benthic Ecological Trait Analysis (L-BETA), Biological Oceanography Division, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, RegionalCentre, Mumbai - 400053, India.
Protist Suctorian ciliates epibiosis Rhabdophrya new species distribution

Abstract

The article presents the description of a new species of the suctorian genus Rhabdophrya inhabiting the body surface (cuticle) of harpacticoid copepod from Navy-Nagar, Mumbai intertidal coralline region, west coast of India, the Arabian Sea. The diagnosis of the genus is refined, all other species diagnoses and identification keys are presented.

 

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