Cothurnia trophoniae Dons, 1946

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Cothurnia trophoniae Dons, 1946

Record as epibiont on cnidarians: The species was registered under synonymic name Cothurnia pedunculata Dons, 1918 in the Kiel Bay (the North Sea) on the cnidarian Gonothyraea loveni (as Laomedea loveni ) ( Precht 1935).

Record as epibiont on other hosts: This species was also found as epibiont on alga Polysiphonia violacea (Roth) Sprengel, 1827 , on polychaetes Trophonia plumosa (Müller, 1771) and Stylarioides plumosa (O.F. Müller, 1776) , and on pantopod Pallene brevirostris Johnston, 1837 in the Kiel Bay (the North Sea) ( Precht 1935). The species was also found on alga Enteromorpha flexuosa (Wulfen) J. Agardh, 1883 in Tamiahua Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico ( Aladro-Lubel et al. 2006). In addition, the species was registered in the Baltic Sea ( Mironova et al. 2009). Recently, the species was found on the green filamentous algae Cladophora sivashensis Meyer, 1922 in the Sivash Bay (the Sea of Azov) ( Sergeeva et al. 2020).