Paradinium sp.
Super Group:
Rhizaria
Phylum:
Cercozoa
Sub-Phylum:
Endomyxa
Class:
Ascetosporea
Order:
Paradinida
Family:
Paradiniidae
Genus:
Paradinium
Diagnosis
Diagnosis_Genus: Paradinium Chatton 1910. Parasitic protists that infect marine, planktonic copepods.
Diagnosis_Species: Undescribed species, close to Paradinium poucheti.
Sequence_SSU: EU189032
Type species
The type species of the genus is Paradinium poucheti
Ecology
Substrate: endozoic
Salinity: marine
Life cycle
Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual
Symbiont: horizontal
Feeding behaviour
Osmotrophy
Parasitism
Reference(s)
Attached phylogeny
Observation site(s)
HOSTS
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Association with... | Region origin | Name of site | In reference... |
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Euterpina acutifrons | Catalunya | off port Olympic |
Identity and Systematic Position of Paradinium poucheti and Other Paradinium-Like Parasites of Marine Copepods Based on Morphology and Nuclear-Encoded SSU rDNA. Protist 159:401 - 413. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2008.02.003 (2008) |