Cryptochilum

Cryptochilum
Cryptochilum - Illustration in Bullettino delle sedute della Accademia gioenia di scienze naturali in Catania, 1893
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Alveolata
Phylum:	Ciliophora
Class:	Oligohymenophorea
Order:	Philasterida
Family:	Cryptochilidae
Genus:	Cryptochilum Maupas, 1883 [1]
Species
Cryptochilum boreale Hentschel, 1924 Cryptochilum echini Cuenot, 1912 Cryptochilum reniforme Petz, Song & Wilbert, 1995

Cryptochilum is a genus of marine ciliates in the family Cryptochilidae.

Cryptochilum boreale has been recovered from the intestine of Echinus esculentus . ^[2]

Names brought to synonymy

• Cryptochilum elegans Maupas, 1883, a synonym for Uronema elegans (Maupas, 1883) Hamburger & Buddenbrock, 1911

References

1. Maupas, E. (1883). "Contributio a l'etude morphologique et anatomique des infusoires cilies". Arch. Zool. Exp. Gén. 11: 427–664.
2. Hentschel, C.C. (July 1924). "On a New Ciliate, Cryptochilum boreale nov. sp., from the Intestine of Echinus esculentus Linn., together with some Notes on the Ciliates of Echinoids". Parasitology. 16 (3): 321–8. doi:10.1017/S0031182000020187. S2CID   84573864.

External links

• Data related to Cryptochilum at Wikispecies
• Cryptochilum at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
• "Cryptochilum". The Encyclopedia of Life .