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
- ^ 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
Data related to Cryptochilum at Wikispecies- Cryptochilum at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
- “Cryptochilum“. The Encyclopedia of Life.
