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Genus of single-celled organisms

Chromidina
Chromidina sp.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): SAR
(unranked): Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Class: Oligohymenophorea
Order: Astomatophorida
Family: Opalinopsidae
Genus: Chromidina
Gonder, 1905
Species

Chromidina elegans (Foettinger, 1881)
Chromidina coronata (Foettinger, 1881)
Chromidina cortezi (Hochberg, 1971)
Chromidina chattoni Souidenne et al., 2016

Chromidina is a genus of apostome ciliates of the family Opalinopsidae. Species of Chromidina are parasitic in the renal and pancreatic appendages of cephalopods.

Phylogenetic position of Chromidina spp. within Ciliophora

In 2016, a molecular study found that the closest relatives of Chromidina spp. were species of the apostome Pseudocollinia.

References

  1. Gonder, R. (1905). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Kernverhältnisse bei den in Cephalopoden schmarotzenden Infusorien". Archiv für Protistenkunde. 5: 240–262.
  2. ^ Foettinger, A. (1881). "Recherches sur quelques Infusoires nouveaux parasites des Céphalopodes". Archives de Biologie. 2: 345–378.
  3. ^ Hochberg, F.G. (1971). Some aspects of the biology of cephalopod kidney parasites (PhD). University of California Santa Barbara.
  4. ^ 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. PMC 4988119. PMID 27530149.
  5. 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. OCLC 248385866.
  6. Landers, S.C. (2010). "The fine structure of the tropho-tromont of the parasitic apostome Chromidina (Ciliophora, Apostomatida)" (PDF). Protistology. 6 (4): 271–9.
Taxon identifiers
Chromidina


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