Zoothamnium niveum (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1838)

Chatterjee, Tapas & Dovgal, Igor, 2020, A checklist of ciliate epibionts (Ciliophora) found on bryozoans, Zootaxa 4896 (4), pp. 547-559 : 555

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.4.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B08FDF97-77DC-407F-8FF1-639334C360AC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4387983

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/210F87CC-8365-C947-64D6-FCB5C378FBE7

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Zoothamnium niveum (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1838)
status

 

Zoothamnium niveum (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1838) View in CoL

Report as epibiont on bryozoans: This species was reported on bryozoans and algae from Strait of Georgia, Canada ( Wailes 1943; Mccazuley & Hancock 1971).

Report as epibiont on other hosts: The species is widely distributed, in particular, was found in Xiamen (Amoy), China ( Wang & Nie 1932) on algae, also on the vertical walls of a tidal channel cut into mangrove peat in Twin Cays ( Belize Barrier Reef, the Caribbean Sea) ( Bauer-Nebelsick et al. 1996).

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Ciliophora

SubPhylum

Intramacronucleata

Class

Oligohymenophorea

SubClass

Peritrichia

Order

Peritrichida

Family

Zoothamniidae

Genus

Zoothamnium

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