Folliculinids - epibiotic ciliates from Puck Bay

Joanna Jaszczołt; Anna Szaniawska

doi:10.2478/v10009-007-0028-z

.blurhash-client-img { display: none !important; }

Folliculinids - epibiotic ciliates from Puck Bay

Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies

Volume 36 (2007): Issue 4 (December 2007)

By: Joanna Jaszczołt and Anna Szaniawska

Open Access

|Dec 2007

Abstract

The present paper reports on the occurrence of the epibiotic ciliates of the family Folliculinidae Dons on the American crayfish Orconectes limosus (Raf., 1817). This is the first report of folliculinid ciliates from coastal waters of Puck Bay observed on animal substrata.

References

Biernacka, I. (1962). Protozoans in the Gulf of Gdansk. I. Protozoans in several coastal ecosystems. Pol. Arch. Hydrobiol.10, 39-109.
Search in Google Scholar
Biernacka, I. (1963). Protozoans in the Gulf of Gdansk. II. Characteristics of Protozoans from investigated coastal ecosystems. Pol. Arch. Hydrobiol.11, 17-75.
Search in Google Scholar
Corliss, J.O. (1979). The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification and Guide to the Literature. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Search in Google Scholar
Das, S.M. (1949). British Folliculinidae (Ciliata, Heterotricha). J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. UK, 28(2), 381-93.10.1017/S0025315400023286
Search in Google Scholar
Hadži, J. (1951). Studies on Folliculinids. Dela Slov. Acad. Znan. Umet. Hist. Nat.4, 1-390.
Search in Google Scholar
Puckett, G.L. & Carman K.R. (2002). Ciliate epibiont effects on feeding, energy reserves and sensitivity to hydrocarbon contaminants in an estuarine harpacticoid copepod. Estuaries, 25(3), 372-81. DOI: 10.1007/BF02695980.10.1007/BF02695980
Search in Google Scholar
Primc-Habdija, B. & Matoničkin R. (2005). A new freshwater folliculinid (Ciliophora) from the karstic region of Croatia. Eur. J. Protistol.41, 37-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2004.09.004.10.1016/j.ejop.2004.09.004
Search in Google Scholar
Weissman P., Lonsdale D.J. & Yen J. (1993). The effect of peritrich ciliates on the production of Acartia hudsonica in Long Island Sound. Limnol. Oceanogr.38(3), 613-22.10.4319/lo.1993.38.3.0613
Search in Google Scholar
Xu, Z. & Burns C.W. (1991). Effects of the epizoic ciliate, Epistylis daphniae, on growth, reproduction and mortality of Boeckella triarticulata (Thomson) (Copepoda, Calanoida). Hydrobiologia, 209(3), 183-89. DOI: 10.1007/BF00015341.10.1007/BF00015341
Search in Google Scholar