Chromidina elegans

Chromidina elegans is a species of parasitic ciliates. It is a parasite of the cuttlefish Sepia elegans, which was described from off Naples, Italy, by Foettinger in 1881 under the name Benedenia elegans [1] and latter assigned to the genus Chromidina by Gonder, in 1905.[2] The species was redescribed by Chatton & Lwoff in 1935.[3]

Chromidina elegans
Chromidina elegans, neohapantotype and paraneohapantotypes
Scientific classification
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Opalinopsidae
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C. elegans
Binomial name
Chromidina elegans
(Foettinger, 1881) Gonder, 1905
The cuttlefish Sepia elegans, the host of Chromidina elegans

Chromidina elegans was redescribed in 2016 from material in the collections of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, and a neohapantotype and paraneohapantotypes were assigned to the taxon.[4]

References

  1. Foettinger A. 1881. Recherches sur quelques Infusoires nouveaux parasites des Céphalopodes. Archives de Biologie, 2, 345-378.
  2. Gonder R. 1905. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Kernverhältnisse bei den in Cephalopoden schmarotzenden Infusorien. Archiv für Protistenkunde, 5, 240-262.
  3. Chatton E, Lwoff A. 1935. Les Ciliés Apostomes. Morphologie, cytologie, éthologie, évolution, systématique. Première partie. Aperçu historique et général. Étude monographique des genres et des espèces. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale, 77, 1-453.
  4. Souidenne, Dhikra; Florent, Isabelle; Dellinger, Marc; Justine, Jean Lou; Romdhane, Mohamed Salah; Furuya, Hidetaka; Grellier, Philippe (2016). "Diversity of apostome ciliates, Chromidina spp. (Oligohymenophorea, Opalinopsidae), parasites of cephalopods of the Mediterranean Sea". Parasite. 23: 33. doi:10.1051/parasite/2016033. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 4988119. PMID 27530149. open access


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