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Issue: Vol. 5389 No. 2: 19 Dec. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-12-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.2.8
Page range: 266-274
Abstract views: 131
PDF downloaded: 10

New find of Dactylophrya-stage of parasitic suctorian of genus Tachyblaston Martin, 1909 (Ciliophora, Suctorea) with comments on 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; Regional Centre; Mumbai - 400053; India
Protist Suctorian ciliate Tachyblaston parasitism distribution taxonomy synonymy

Abstract

The article presents the new find of Dactylophrya-stage of rare parasitic suctorian ciliate of genus Tachyblaston on harpacticoid copepod from Mumbai, India. The found specimen was identified as Tachyblaston reversum (Collin, 1909), n. comb. The redescription of T. reversum was provided. The refined diagnoses of genus Tachyblaston and included species, data on distribution of genus representatives, synonymy and comments on genus taxonomy are also presented.

 

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