Paradinium caulleryi

Super Group: 
Rhizaria
Phylum: 
Cercozoa
Sub-Phylum: 
Endomyxa
Class: 
Ascetosporea
Order: 
Paradinida
Family: 
Paradiniidae
Genus: 
Paradinium
Species: 
caulleryi
Authority: 
Chatton & Soyer 1973

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

Observation site(s)

HOSTS

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Oncaea media Banyuls-sur-mer
Chatton E, Soyer M-O (1973) 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.