Chromidina

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Chromidina
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Chromidina sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
(unranked):
SAR
(unranked):
Alveolata
Phylum:
Ciliophora
Class:
Oligohymenophorea
Order:
Astomatophorida
Family:
Opalinopsidae
Genus:
Chromidina

Gonder, 1905 [1]
Species

Chromidina elegans (Foettinger, 1881) [2]
Chromidina coronata (Foettinger, 1881) [2]
Chromidina cortezi (Hochberg, 1971) [3]
Chromidina chattoni Souidenne et al., 2016 [4]

Chromidina is a genus of apostome ciliates of the family Opalinopsidae. Species of Chromidina are parasitic [3] [5] [6] in the renal and pancreatic appendages of cephalopods.

Phylogenetic position of Chromidina spp. within Ciliophora Parasite160019-fig4 - Chromidina spp. (Oligohymenophorea, Opalinopsidae), parasites of cephalopods of the Mediterranean Sea.png
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 . [4]

References

  1. ↑ Gonder, R. (1905). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Kernverhältnisse bei den in Cephalopoden schmarotzenden Infusorien". Archiv für Protistenkunde. 5: 240–262.
  2. 1 2 Foettinger, A. (1881). "Recherches sur quelques Infusoires nouveaux parasites des Céphalopodes". Archives de Biologie. 2: 345–378.
  3. 1 2 Hochberg, F.G. (1971). Some aspects of the biology of cephalopod kidney parasites (PhD). University of California Santa Barbara.
  4. 1 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.
  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.


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