Epistylis plicatilis Ehrenberg, 1831

Chatterjee, Tapas, 2025, A checklist of peritrich ciliate epibionts (Ciliophora, Peritrichea) on aquatic oligochaetes (Annelida, Oligochaeta), Zootaxa 5725 (1), pp. 106-118 : 107

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.1.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:856E56D3-3F49-4A05-91D9-1B6791DD4887

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87D6-9C57-EB61-99D8-FB43FE2F00B8

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Epistylis plicatilis Ehrenberg, 1831
status

 

Epistylis plicatilis Ehrenberg, 1831 View in CoL

Report as epibiont on oligochaetes: This species was reported as an epibiont on the oligochaetes Nais sp. and Tubifex velutinus ( Bourquin-Lindt 1919; Monard 1918; Keiser 1921).

Remarks: Epistylis plicatilis is a ubiquitous freshwater species, reported from a wide variety of aquatic substrates, including aquatic plants, algae, crustaceans, insects and insect larvae, snails, and inanimate objects ( Chatterjee et al. 2021b).

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