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Epibiosis in Crustacea: An Overview

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A review of the species of protozoan epibionts on crustaceans. II. Suctorian ciliates

An updated inventory of the peritrich (Protozoa, Ciliophora) epibiont species on crustaceans has been carried out and may be of use in further surveys of protozoan-crustacean epibiosis.
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Toxicity and bioaccumulation of lead and cadmium in marine protozoan communities.

The behavior of lead and cadmium in a protozoan community was studied in order to obtain new data regarding the toxicity and bioaccumulation of these heavy metals. For this purpose, microcosms with…
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A Review of Recently Described Epibioses of Ciliate Protozoa on Crustacea

An overview of the Ciliata (Protozoa) recently described as epibionts on crustaceans is given, with indication of their taxonomic position, the basibiont crustacean species, and the localities were theseEpibiontic phenomena have been recorded.
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Epibionts on the krill (Euphausia pacifica) from the E coast of Japan

Fernandez-Leborans, G. 2011. Epibionts on the krill (Euphausia pacifica) from the E coast of Japan. —Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 00: 1–10. Specimens of Euphausia pacifica collected from shallow…
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Distribution of Ciliate Epibionts on the Portunid Crab Liocarcinus depurator (Decapoda: Brachyura)

The ciliate groups most commonly found on the exoskeleton of L. depurator are described and their distribution on the crab's body is described.
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Sublittoral Protistan Communities of the Shores of the Sea of Cantabria (Bay of Biscay)

The composition of the protist communities of three coastal areas of the Sea of Cantabria were studied, and the seasonal variation of the larger groups of these organisms described, with respect to…
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Ciliate—decapod epibiosis in two areas of the north-west Mediterranean coast

The protozoan ciliate epibionts present on diverse decapod crustaceans from two areas of the north-west Mediterranean are the first record of the family of folliculinid ciliates as epibions on crustacean in Mediterranean waters.
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NEW RECORDS OF EPIBIONT CILIATES (CILIOPHORA) FROM INDIAN COAST WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SIX NEW SPECIES

Six epibiont ciliates Cothurnia palkensis, C. nova, C. disper, C. dovgali, C. mannaerensis and C. clampi are described as new for science from the Indian coast. Acineta truncata Collin, 1909 and A.…

Morphology and taxonomic position of two marine pleuronematine species: Pleuronema lynni and Schizocalyptra marina (Protozoa, Ciliophora)

It is concluded that it is a new species of protozoan marine scuticociliates belonging to the genus Pleuronema, which has a fibrillar system that corresponds to the buccal area that has not been observed before, as well as other structural components which have been discussed in relation to Schizocalyptra magna.
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