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Cryptochilum

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

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Cryptochilum
Cryptochilum - Illustration in Bullettino delle sedute della Accademia gioenia di scienze naturali in Catania, 1893
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Class: Oligohymenophorea
Order: Philasterida
Family: Cryptochilidae
Genus: Cryptochilum
Maupas, 18831
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

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.
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