| Autor: |
Chatterjee T; Near Hari Mandir Road, Hirapur, Dhanbad 826004, Jharkhand, India. . drtchatterjee@yahoo.co.in., Sautya S; Laboratory for Benthic Ecological Trait Analysis (L-BETA), Biological Oceanography Division, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre, Mumbai400053, India. . sautya@nio.org., Dovgal I; A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, 2, Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia. . dovgal-1954@mail.ru., Gaikwad S; Laboratory for Benthic Ecological Trait Analysis (L-BETA), Biological Oceanography Division, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, RegionalCentre, Mumbai400053, India. . santygaikwad@gmail.com. |
| Abstrakt: |
Three suctorian ciliate species, Paracineta livadiana (Mereschkowsky, 1881), Loricophrya bosporica Sergeeva Dovgal, 2014 and Acinetopsis lynni Baldrighi et al., 2020 are found as epibionts on meiobenthic nematodes in an oxygen minimum zone of the Arabian Sea. All three species are recorded here for the first time from the Indian Ocean. |
