Chromidina elegans | |
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Chromidina elegans, neohapantotype and paraneohapantotypes | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Alveolata |
Phylum: | Ciliophora |
Class: | Oligohymenophorea |
Order: | Apostomatida |
Family: | Opalinopsidae |
Genus: | Chromidina |
Species: | C. elegans
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Binomial name | |
Chromidina elegans (Foettinger, 1881) Gonder, 1905
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Synonyms | |
Benedenia elegans Foettinger A., 1881 |
Chromidina elegans is a species of parasitic ciliates. It is a parasite of the cuttlefish Sepia elegans.
Chromidina elegans was first described from specimen collected from off Naples, Italy, by Foettinger in 1881, bearing the name Benedenia elegans.[1] It was reassigned to the Genus Chromidina by Gonder, in 1905.[2]
The species was first redescribed by Chatton & Lwoff in 1935.[3] and again redescribed in 2016 based on material in the collections of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. In the 2016 description, a neohapantotype and paraneohapantotypes were designated the species.[4]