Acineta foetida Maupas 1881
- Dataset
- A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on ostracods (Crustacea, Ostracoda)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Chromista
- phylum
- Ciliophora
- class
- Kinetofragminophora
- order
- Suctorida
- family
- Acinetidae
- genus
- Acineta
- species
- Acineta foetida
discussion
Remarks: This species has been reported from variety of host and substrates.
distribution
Record as epibiont on other hosts: This is an ubiquitous marine and brackish-water species, observed on inanimate substrates, algae, but often found on crustaceans (Dovgal 2013). The species was observed on representative crustacean orders, eg. Dovgal (2013), on Amphipoda — Gammarus olivii Milne-Edwards, 1830, G. subtipicus Stock, 1966, Pontogammarus maeoticus (Sowinsky, 1894) and Orchestia bottae Milne-Edwards, 1840; Isopoda — Sphaeroma serratum (Fabricius, 1787), S. pulchellum (Colosi, 1921) and Idotea baltica basteri (Pallas, 1772); De-capoda — Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837, Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758), Diogenes pugilator (Roux, 1829), Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823 and Eriphia verrucosa (Forskal, 1775).