Ephelota truncata Fraipont, 1878

Chatterjee, Tapas, Dovgal, Igor & Fernandez-Leborans, Gregorio, 2021, A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on cnidarians, Zootaxa 5039 (2), pp. 151-178 : 159

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5039.2.1
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scientific name	Ephelota truncata Fraipont, 1878
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Record as epibiont on cnidarians: The species was described on hydroid Sertularia argentea Linnaeus, 1758 (named as S. cupressina ) from Ostende, Belgium ( Kahl 1934)

Record from other hosts/substrata: The species was found at artificial substrates (glass slides) from scallopculturing waters near Qingdao, China ( Chen et al. 2008b).

Chen, X., Miao, M., Song, W., Warrem, A., Al-Rasheid K., Al-Farraj, S. & Al-Quraishy, S. (2008 b). Redescriptions of two poorly known marine suctorian ciliates, Ephelota truncata Fraipont, 1878 and Ephelota mammillata Dons, 1918 (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Suctoria), from Qingdao, China. Acta Protozoologica, 47, 247 - 256

Kahl, A. (1934) Suctoria. In: Grimpe, G. & Wagler, E. (Eds.), Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee, 26, 184 - 226.