Ephelota gemmipara

• Main Authors: Chatterjee, Tapas, Dovgal, Igor, Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura, Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Chromista; Ciliophora; Phyllopharyngea; Exogenida; Ephelotidae; Ephelota; Ephelota gemmipara; Fernandez; Estrada; Haller; Calanus finmarchicus; Copepods
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3809699; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809699

Ephelota gemmipara (Hertwig, 1876) = Podophrya gemmipara Hertwig, 1876, p. 24 = Hemiophrya gemmipara (Hertwig, 1876) Kent, 1881 = Dendrophrya gemmipara (Hertwig, 1876) Sand, 1895 = Alderia apiculosa Pritchard, 1852 = Ephelota apiculosa (Pritchard, 1852) Wright, 1858 = Podophrya pusilla Koch, 1876 = Hemiophrya pusilla (Koch, 1876) Kent, 1881 = Podophrya benedeni Fraipont, 1878 = Hemiophrya microsoma Maupas, 1881 = Ephelota crustaceorum (Haller, 1878) Yagiu, 1980 Record as epibiont on ostracods: The species recently was found on C. dentata in the offshore of Arabian Sea (Chatterjee et al. 2019b). Record as epibiont on other hosts: Ubiquitous species, observed colonizing inanimate substrates, algae, hydroids, bryozoans, etc. (Dovgal 2013).This species was also found as epibiont on various copepods eg., Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1765), Candacia armata (Boeck, 1872), Pleuromamma borealis (F. Dahl, 1893) and P. gracilis (Claus, 1863) (Steuer1928; Rose 1924; Fernandez-Leborans & Tato-Porto 2000b). Santhakumari (1985) reported this species as epibiont on copepods Euchaeta marina (Prestandrea, 1833), Candacia tuberculata Wolfenden, 1905, Labidocera acuta (Dana, 1849), Undinula vulgaris (Dana, 1849), other two copepods of genera Pontella and Labidocera (species name written wrongly) and commented that this suctorian was found infesting chiefly the postero-dorsal region of cephalothorax. Santhakumari (1986b) reported this species as epibiont on the zoea of pea crab Porcellana sp. Remarks: This species has been reported from variety of host and substrates. Published as part of Chatterjee, Tapas, Dovgal, Igor, Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura & Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio, 2020, A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on ostracods (Crustacea, Ostracoda), pp. 17-30 in Zootaxa 4763 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4763.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/3744023