Apodinium rhizophorum

Super Group: 
Alveolata
Phylum: 
Dinophyta
Class: 
Dinophyceae
Family: 
Apodinidae
Genus: 
Apodinium
Species: 
rhizophorum
Authority: 
Chatton 1912
Synonym(s): 
Parapodinium catenaria Cachon 1964

Diagnosis

Diagnosis_Genus: Apodinium Chatton 1907. Ectoparasite of appendicularians, attached by a peduncle. Sporogenesis occurs during the trophont stage by palisporogenesis.
Diagnosis_Species: Apodinium rhizophorum Chatton 1912. Type host: Oikopleura cophocerca, the parasite is localised on its tail. Individuals, up to 60-110 µm long and 35-60 µm large, are ovoids. The peduncle penetrates inside the tegument, and divided soon after the penetration into two rhizoids.
Body_length: 60-110 µm
Body_wide: 35-60 µm

Type species

The type species for the genus is Apodinium mycetoides.

Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen

Type host: Oikopleura cophocerca
Type locality: Banyuls-sur-mer (France)

Ecology

Substrate: epizoic
Salinity: marine
Sociability_trophont: gregarious

Life cycle

Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual
Symbiont: horizontal

Feeding behaviour

Parasitism
Osmotrophy

Observation site(s)

HOSTS

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Oikopleura cophocerca Banyuls-sur-mer
Chatton E (1912) Diagnoses préliminaires de péridiniens parasites nouveaux. Bull. Soc. Zool. de France XXXVII:85-93.