Lagenophrys cochinensis, Santhakumari & Gopalan, 1980

Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura & Clamp, John C., 2016, An annotated checklist of species in the family Lagenophryidae (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea, Peritrichia), With a brief review of their taxonomy, morphology, and biogeography, Zootaxa 4132 (4), pp. 451-492 : 480-481

L. cochinensis Santhakumari & Gopalan, 1980

Lagenophrys cochinensis (nomen nudum) in Santhakumari 1976: 93-94, 96-98; Lagenophrys cochinensis in

Santhakumari & Gopalan 1980: 126; Santhakumari & Nair 1982: 66; Santhakumari & Nair 1985: 220; Clamp

1991: 358; Clamp & Kane 2003: 165; Clamp 2005: 39, 41.

Museum Depositions. USNM. 1075882, 1075907, 1075917, 1075919, 1075922, 1075930, 1075931, 1075932,

1075933.

Habitat. Marine, estuarine.

Distribution. BR: Australian, Ethiopian, Nearctic, Neotropical (Mayén-Estrada & Aguilar-Aguilar 2012).

Cameroon: no locality given.

Cuba: Bahia de Nuevitas, mouth of Saramaguacan River.

India: Kerala, Cochin, Ramanthuruth area (9°58'54.80"N, 76°15'34.25"E); Kerala, Cochin, Cochin Backwater (9°58'52.78"N, 76°15'34.05"E); Southwest coast; Tamil Nadu, Pamban (9°16'11.58"N, 79°13'14.71"E) and Rameswaram (9°17'8.65"N, 79°18'58.22"E); Cochin Backwater, Kayamkulam Lake, Ayiramthengu; Cochin Backwater, Karunagappally (southern region of Kayamkulam Lake); Cochin Backwater, 0.3 km from barmouth, at Neendakara (8°56'23.09"N, 76°32'56.70"E); Cochin, Cochin Backwater, Aroor station (9°53'19.77"N, 76°17'53.83"E); Kerala, north shore of Cochin Harbor, pier in brackish water and from wooden craft; Tamil Nadu (11°7'14.16"N, 78°39'31.33"E); Madras (11°43'19.44"N, 78°3'5.68"E).

Kenya: Mombasa, Port Reitz area, Mwachi R. (4°2'21.99"S, 39°34'1.83"E).

Malaysia: Kedah, Putani, Sungei.

New Zealand: North Island, near Wellington, Pauatahunui, Inlet (41°6'14.68"S, 174°52'4.81"E); South Island, Kenepuru Sound (41°11'54.90"S, 173°57'33.13"E); North Island, Wairoa R. at Hawke’s Bay (39°46'10.97"S, 176°44'3.82"E).

Philippines: Aklan, New Washington, fish pond (11°39'0.24"N, 122°25'40.05"E).

Thailand: Nong Pang, Bangpakong R.

USA: California, Humboldt Co., Humboldt Bay (40°43'10.25"N, 124°14'33.36"W); Alameda Co., Berkeley, Berkeley Marina (37°51'11.23"N, 122°18'28.86"W). Florida, Brevard Co., Grant, Indian River.

Venezuela: Maracaibo Bay (10°33'48.40"N, 71°35'59.40"W).

Hosts. Cameroon: Sphaeroma terebrans Bate (pleopods). Cuba: S. walkeri Stebbing (pleopods). India:

Ctenapseudes chilkensis (Chilton) (cited as Apseudes chilkensis ) (mainly on posterior appendages but also on other

parts of the body), S. annandalei Stebbing , S. terebrans (on all parts of body except some mouthparts), S. triste

Heller (posterior appendages and other body areas as pleopods). Kenya: S.terebrans (pleopods). Malaysia: S. triste

(pleopods). New Zealand: S. quoyanum H. Milne-Edwards , Exosphaeroma planulum Hurley and Jansen

(pleopods). Philipinnes: S. terebrans Bate (pleopods). Thailand: Sphaeroma sp. (pleopods). USA: S. quoyanum H.

Milne-Edwards (pleopods and posterior legs), S. terebrans (pleopods). Venezuela: S. terebrans (pleopods).

References. Santhakumari 1976; Santhakumari & Gopalan 1980; Santhakumari & Nair 1982, 1985; Clamp 2006;

Fernandez-Leborans 2009.