Chromidina elegans is a species of parasitic ciliates. It is a parasite of the cuttlefish Sepia elegans.
| Chromidina elegans | |
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| Chromidina elegans, neohapantotype and paraneohapantotypes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Ciliophora |
| Class: | Oligohymenophorea |
| Order: | Apostomatida |
| Family: | Opalinopsidae |
| Genus: | Chromidina |
| Species: | C. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Chromidina elegans (Foettinger, 1881) Gonder, 1905
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| Synonyms | |
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Benedenia elegans Foettinger A., 1881 | |
Taxonomy
editChromidina 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
edit- ^ Foettinger A. 1881. Recherches sur quelques Infusoires nouveaux parasites des Céphalopodes. Archives de Biologie, 2, 345-378.
- ^ Gonder R. 1905. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Kernverhältnisse bei den in Cephalopoden schmarotzenden Infusorien. Archiv für Protistenkunde, 5, 240-262.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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