Cryptochilum

Cryptochilum
Cryptochilum - Illustration in Bullettino delle sedute della Accademia gioenia di scienze naturali in Catania, 1893
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Class: Oligohymenophorea
Order: Philasterida
Family: Cryptochilidae
Genus: Cryptochilum
Maupas, 1883
Species

Cryptochilum is a genus of marine Oligohymenophorean ciliates that belongs to the family Cryptochilidae.

Cryptochilum boreale has been recovered from the intestine of the Common Sea Urchin (Echinus esculentus).

Taxonomy

Species

  1. Cryptochilum boreale Hentschel, 1924
  2. Cryptochilum echini Cuenot, 1912
  3. Cryptochilum reniforme Petz, Song & Wilbert, 1995
Names brought to synonymy

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.