| redescription of lagenophrys cochinensis santhakumari & gopalan, 1980 (ciliophora, peritrichia, lagenophryidae), an ectosymbiont of marine isopods, including new information on morphology, geographic distribution, and intraspecific variation. | lagenophrys cochinensis is a peritrich ciliate originally reported as an ectocommensal of the wood-boring isopods sphaeroma terebrans, sphaeroma triste, and sphaeroma annandalei and the tanaidacean apseudes chilkensis in estuaries of southern india. in the present study, it was found to occur also on sphaeroma quoyanum, sphaeroma walkeri, and exosphaeroma planulum. new material was used to make permanent preparations, allowing a comprehensive description of the morphology of l. cochinensis for t ... | 2006 | 16441587 |