A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on cnidarians
Author
Chatterjee, Tapas
Near Harimandir Road, Dhanbad 826001, Jharkhand, India.
Author
Dovgal, Igor
A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2, Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia.
Author
Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio
Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C / José Antonio Novais, 12, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-15
5039
2
151
178
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5039.2.1
1175-5326
5508963
C2B00051-A562-4FCA-83D5-DE284D0D90CE
Halofolliculina
sp.
Record as parasite on cnidarians:
It was found to infect varieties of corals e.g.,
Acropora palmata
(Lamarck, 1816)
,
A. cervicornis
(Lamarck, 1816)
,
Diploriala byrinthiformis
(Linnaeus, 1758),
D. strigosa
(Dana, 1846)
,
Colpophyllia natans
(Houttuyn, 1772)
,
Orbicella faveolata
(Ellis & Solander, 1786)
,
O. annularis
(Ellis & Solander, 1786)
,
Montastraea franksi
(Gregory, 1895)
,
Agaricia tenuifolia
Dana, 1846
, and
Porites porites
(Pallas, 1766)
in the Caribbean Sea area and Atlantic Ocean (
Cróquer
et al
. 2006a
, b;
Page
et al
. 2015
,
Verde
et al
. 2016
).
Remarks
: This ciliate infection causing diseaces Caribbean Ciliate Infections (CCI) on coral hosts (
Rodríguez
et al
. 2009
).