Thecacineta urceolata Liao and Dovgali 2015
- Dataset
- A checklist of suctorian epibiont ciliates (Ciliophora) found on meiobenthic marine nematodes
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Chromista
- phylum
- Ciliophora
- class
- Phyllopharyngea
- order
- Exogenida
- family
- Thecacinetidae
- genus
- Thecacineta
- species
- Thecacineta urceolata
description
Report as epibiont on nematodes
description
The suctorian was found colonising the body surface of nematode Desmodora pontica (Filipjevı 1922) from a seagrass bed of Thalassia hemprichii at Shihlangı Ludaoı Taiwan (Liao and Dovgal 2015). Ansari et al. (2017) reported this species on Desmodora species in carbonate sediments of the Suvadiva lagoon bottom (Maldivı Arabian Sea) at a water depth 63 m.
discussion
Remarks Liao and Dovgal (2015) have considered that the cuticular ornamentation may provide proper attached points for the ciliatesı and that the head region possibly has similar source benefits with the cloaca of hosts for these ecto-commensals.