Paradinium caulleryi
Super Group:
Rhizaria
Phylum:
Cercozoa
Sub-Phylum:
Endomyxa
Class:
Ascetosporea
Order:
Paradinida
Family:
Paradiniidae
Genus:
Paradinium
Species:
caulleryi
Diagnosis
Diagnosis_Genus: Paradinium Chatton 1910. Parasitic protists that infect marine, planktonic copepods.
Diagnosis_Species: Paradinium caulleryi Chatton & Soyer 1973. Parasite of Oncaea media. Similar to P. poucheti, but with a plasmodium having larger nuclei, with V shaped chromosomes (5 chromosomes).
Type species
The type species of the genus is P. poucheti.
Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen
Type host: Oncaea media
Type locality: Banyuls-sur-Mer (France)
Ecology
Substrate: endozoic
Salinity: marine
Life cycle
Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual
Symbiont: horizontal
Feeding behaviour
Osmotrophy
Parasitism
Reference(s)
Observation site(s)
HOSTS
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Association with... | Region origin | Name of site | In reference... |
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Oncaea media | Banyuls-sur-mer |
Le cycle évolutif du Paradinium poucheti Chatton, flagellé parasite plasmodial des copépodes. Les Paradinides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie et Biologie Animale 12eme série:27-60. (1973) |