Lagenophrys cochinensis Santhakumari & Gopalan 1980
Creators: name: Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura
name: Clamp, John C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Peritrichida
Lagenophryidae
Lagenophrys
Lagenophrys cochinensis

description: L. cochinensis Santhakumari & Gopalan, 1980
Lagenophrys cochinensis (nomen nudum) in Santhakumari 1976: 93-94, 96-98; Lagenophrys cochinensis in
Santhakumari & Gopalan 1980: 126; Santhakumari & Nair 1982: 66; Santhakumari & Nair 1985: 220; Clamp
1991: 358; Clamp & Kane 2003: 165; Clamp 2005: 39, 41.
Museum Depositions. USNM. 1075882, 1075907, 1075917, 1075919, 1075922, 1075930, 1075931, 1075932,
1075933.
Habitat. Marine, estuarine.
Distribution. BR: Australian, Ethiopian, Nearctic, Neotropical (Mayén-Estrada & Aguilar-Aguilar 2012).
Cameroon: no locality given.
Cuba: Bahia de Nuevitas, mouth of Saramaguacan River.
India: Kerala, Cochin, Ramanthuruth area (9°58'54.80"N, 76°15'34.25"E); Kerala, Cochin, Cochin Backwater (9°58'52.78"N, 76°15'34.05"E); Southwest coast; Tamil Nadu, Pamban (9°16'11.58"N, 79°13'14.71"E) and Rameswaram (9°17'8.65"N, 79°18'58.22"E); Cochin Backwater, Kayamkulam Lake, Ayiramthengu; Cochin Backwater, Karunagappally (southern region of Kayamkulam Lake); Cochin Backwater, 0.3 km from barmouth, at Neendakara (8°56'23.09"N, 76°32'56.70"E); Cochin, Cochin Backwater, Aroor station (9°53'19.77"N, 76°17'53.83"E); Kerala, north shore of Cochin Harbor, pier in brackish water and from wooden craft; Tamil Nadu (11°7'14.16"N, 78°39'31.33"E); Madras (11°43'19.44"N, 78°3'5.68"E).
Kenya: Mombasa, Port Reitz area, Mwachi R. (4°2'21.99"S, 39°34'1.83"E).
Malaysia: Kedah, Putani, Sungei.
New Zealand: North Island, near Wellington, Pauatahunui, Inlet (41°6'14.68"S, 174°52'4.81"E); South Island, Kenepuru Sound (41°11'54.90"S, 173°57'33.13"E); North Island, Wairoa R. at Hawke’s Bay (39°46'10.97"S, 176°44'3.82"E).
Philippines: Aklan, New Washington, fish pond (11°39'0.24"N, 122°25'40.05"E).
Thailand: Nong Pang, Bangpakong R.
USA: California, Humboldt Co., Humboldt Bay (40°43'10.25"N, 124°14'33.36"W); Alameda Co., Berkeley, Berkeley Marina (37°51'11.23"N, 122°18'28.86"W). Florida, Brevard Co., Grant, Indian River.
Venezuela: Maracaibo Bay (10°33'48.40"N, 71°35'59.40"W).
Hosts. Cameroon: Sphaeroma terebrans Bate (pleopods). Cuba: S. walkeri Stebbing (pleopods). India:
Ctenapseudes chilkensis (Chilton) (cited as Apseudes chilkensis) (mainly on posterior appendages but also on other
parts of the body), S. annandalei Stebbing, S. terebrans (on all parts of body except some mouthparts), S. triste
Heller (posterior appendages and other body areas as pleopods). Kenya: S.terebrans (pleopods). Malaysia: S. triste
(pleopods). New Zealand: S. quoyanum H. Milne-Edwards, Exosphaeroma planulum Hurley and Jansen
(pleopods). Philipinnes: S. terebrans Bate (pleopods). Thailand: Sphaeroma sp. (pleopods). USA: S. quoyanum H.
Milne-Edwards (pleopods and posterior legs), S. terebrans (pleopods). Venezuela: S. terebrans (pleopods).
References. Santhakumari 1976; Santhakumari & Gopalan 1980; Santhakumari & Nair 1982, 1985; Clamp 2006;
Fernandez-Leborans 2009.
description: Published as part of Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura & Clamp, John C., 2016, An annotated checklist of species in the family Lagenophryidae (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea, Peritrichia), With a brief review of their taxonomy, morphology, and biogeography, pp. 451-492 in Zootaxa 4132 (4) on pages 480-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/257628