Chromidina

Chromidina
Chromidina sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Alveolata
Phylum:	Ciliophora
Class:	Oligohymenophorea
Order:	Astomatophorida
Family:	Opalinopsidae
Genus:	Chromidina Gonder, 1905 [1]
Species
Chromidina chattoni Souidenne et al., 2016 [2] Chromidina coronata (Foettinger, 1881) [3] Chromidina cortezi (Hochberg, 1971) [4] Chromidina elegans (Foettinger, 1881) [3]

Chromidina is a genus of apostome ciliates of the family Opalinopsidae. Species of Chromidina are parasitic ^{[4] [5] [6]} in the renal and pancreatic appendages of cephalopods.

Phylogenetic position of Chromidina spp. within Ciliophora

In 2016, a molecular study found that the closest relatives of Chromidina spp. were species of the apostome Pseudocollinia . ^[2]

References

1. Gonder, R. (1905). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Kernverhältnisse bei den in Cephalopoden schmarotzenden Infusorien". Archiv für Protistenkunde. 5: 240–262.
2. 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. PMC   4988119 . PMID   27530149.
3. Foettinger, A. (1881). "Recherches sur quelques Infusoires nouveaux parasites des Céphalopodes". Archives de Biologie. 2: 345–378.
4. Hochberg, F.G. (1971). Some aspects of the biology of cephalopod kidney parasites (PhD). University of California Santa Barbara.
5. 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. OCLC   248385866.
6. Landers, S.C. (2010). "The fine structure of the tropho-tromont of the parasitic apostome Chromidina (Ciliophora, Apostomatida)" (PDF). Protistology. 6 (4): 271–9.