GENUS Podophrya Ehrenberg, 1834

Podophrya maupasi Butschli, 1889

The body is spherical with 16 tentacles distributed over the entire body surface; without a lorica; the stalk is about the same length as the trophont; the macronucleus is spherical and is situated in the central part of the body; contractile vacuole near to the apical region. Known previous records. There are no worldwide previous records on crustaceans, this is the first.