TY - JOUR
TI - First Report of Colacium vesiculosum Ehrenberg 1853 (Euglenophyceae), as Epibiont on Planktonic Copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda), in a Brazilian Floodplain Lake
AU - Cabral, Adalgisa Fernanda
AU - Dunck, Bárbara
AU - Lansac-Toha, Fernando Miranda
AU - Rodrigues, Liliana
AU - Pinto Utz, Laura Roberta
AU - Machadovelho, Luiz Felipe
TI - First Report of Colacium vesiculosum Ehrenberg 1853 (Euglenophyceae), as Epibiont on Planktonic Copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda), in a Brazilian Floodplain Lake
AB - Epibiosis is a facultative association between two organisms: the epibiont, which colonizes the surface of living substrates, and the basibiont, which hosts the epibionts. Among protists, while numerous accounts exist for ciliates as epibionts of zooplankton, little information is available about the occurrence of this relationship between flagellates and microcrustaceans in the neotropics. During a survey on the epibiotic relationship between ciliated protists and planktonic copepods in a tropical floodplain, we reported for the first time the occurrence of Colacium vesiculosum as an epibiont onThermocyclops minutus and Notodiaptomus amazonicus from southern Brazil. The mean infestation prevalence was significantly higher on adults 30.53% (± 2.85) in comparison with copepodites 0.87% (± 0.55). When hosts were separated by order (Calanoida and Cyclopoida) copepodites presented a mean infestation prevalence of 0.92% (± 0.85) and 0.83% (± 0.60) respectively, while adults had a mean prevalence of 29.55% (± 6.8) and 30.13% (± 5.83), which could be explained by the fact that adult copepods provide a more stable substrate for epibionts.
VL - 2014
IS - Volume 53, Issue 4
PY - 2014
SN - 0065-1583
C1 - 1689-0027
SP - 335
EP - 340
DO - 10.4467/16890027AP.14.028.2023
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/acta-protozoologica/article/first-report-of-colacium-vesiculosum-ehrenberg-1853-euglenophyceae-as-epibiont-on-planktonic-copepods-crustacea-copepoda-in-a-brazilian-floodplain-lake
KW - Epibiosis
KW - euglenoid
KW - flagellates
KW - neotropics