Cryptochilum
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| Cryptochilum - Illustration in Bullettino delle sedute della Accademia gioenia di scienze naturali in Catania, 1893 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Ciliophora |
| Class: | Oligohymenophorea |
| Order: | Philasterida |
| Family: | Cryptochilidae |
| Genus: | Cryptochilum Maupas, 1883[1] |
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Cryptochilum is a genus of marine ciliates in the family Cryptochilidae.
Cryptochilum boreale has been recovered from the intestine of Echinus esculentus.[2]
- Names brought to synonymy
- Cryptochilum elegans Maupas, 1883, a synonym for Uronema elegans (Maupas, 1883) Hamburger & Buddenbrock, 1911
References[edit]
- ^ Maupas, E. (1883). "Contributio a l'etude morphologique et anatomique des infusoires cilies". Arch. Zool. Exp. Gén. 11: 427–664.
- ^ 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.
External links[edit]
Data related to Cryptochilum at Wikispecies- Cryptochilum at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
- "Cryptochilum" at the Encyclopedia of Life
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