Chromidina chattoni
Chromidina elegans is a species of ciliates, described in 2016. It is parasitic in the kidney appendages of the cuttlefish Loligo vulgaris. The type-locality is off Tunisia in the Mediterranean Sea.[1]
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| Chromidina chattoni, hapantotype and parahapantotypes | |
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| Family: | Opalinopsidae |
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| Species: | C. chattoni |
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| Chromidina chattoni Souidenne, Florent and Grellier, 2016 | |
Loligo vulgaris, the host of Chromidina chattoni
The name of the species refers to French biologist Édouard Chatton, who worked on species of Chromidina.[2]
References
- 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.
- 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.
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