Podophrya Ehrenberg, 1834

Ramírez-Ballesteros, Mireya & Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura, 2019, Suctorians (Ciliophora: Suctoria) as epibionts of decapods of families Cambaridae and Pseudothelphusidae, Zootaxa 4648 (2), pp. 384-392 : 390

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.2.11

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3432E9A2-BC9F-439A-AA1B-15627AB1B47B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5619159

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A953B131-2355-FFCA-FF27-147B7BC2FBD3

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Plazi

scientific name

Podophrya Ehrenberg, 1834
status

 

GENUS Podophrya Ehrenberg, 1834

Podophrya maupasi Butschli, 1889

The body is spherical with 16 tentacles distributed over the entire body surface; without a lorica; the stalk is about the same length as the trophont; the macronucleus is spherical and is situated in the central part of the body; contractile vacuole near to the apical region. Known previous records. There are no worldwide previous records on crustaceans, this is the first.

Kingdom

Protozoa

Phylum

Ciliophora

Class

Kinetofragminophora

SubClass

Suctoria

Order

Suctorida

Family

Podophryidae

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