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Chromidina elegans

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Chromidina elegans
Chromidina elegans, neohapantotype and paraneohapantotypes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Class: Oligohymenophorea
Order: Apostomatida
Family: Opalinopsidae
Genus: Chromidina
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Chromidina elegans
(Foettinger, 1881) Gonder, 1905
Synonyms

Benedenia elegans Foettinger A., 1881

Chromidina elegans is a species of parasitic ciliates. It is a parasite of the cuttlefish Sepia elegans.

Taxonomy

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Chromidina elegans was first described from specimen collected from off Naples, Italy, by Foettinger in 1881, bearing the name Benedenia elegans.[1] It was reassigned to the Genus Chromidina by Gonder, in 1905.[2]

The species was first redescribed by Chatton & Lwoff in 1935.[3] and again redescribed in 2016 based on material in the collections of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. In the 2016 description, a neohapantotype and paraneohapantotypes were designated the species.[4]

References

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  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 icon