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Issue: Vol. 4061 No. 5: 11 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.9
Page range: 596–600
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

Loricophrya bosporica n. sp. (Ciliophora, Suctorea) epibiont of Desmoscolex minutus (Nematoda, Desmoscolecida) from oxic/anoxic boundary of the Black Sea Istanbul Strait’s outlet area 

Institute of Marine Biological Research of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2, Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia.
Institute of Marine Biological Research of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2, Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia.
Protozoa ciliate epibiont nematode suctorian the Black Sea oxic/anoxic conditions Loricophrya bosporica

Abstract

A suctorian ciliate Loricophrya bosporica sp. nov. is described from the body surface of nematodes of genus Desmoscolex collected in oxic/anoxic boundary of the Bosporus outlet area of the Black Sea. The new species differs from relative species L. sivertseni by development of its body, which takes no more than half, or a third of the lorica length, absence of crown-like projections at the lorica edge as for adhesive disk. From L. tuba new species differs by considerably shorter stylotheca and prevalence to nematode host instead of echinoderms.

 

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