Genus Conidophrys Chatton et Lwoff, 1934: 697

Mycodinium Averinzeff, 1916: 183 Conidiophrys Kirby, 1941: 954

Ciliates parasites of secretory setae of crustacean hosts, feeding of their exudate. The life cycle includes trophont and tomite stages. The trophont body is subcylindrical, fully enclosed by cyst. The trophont infraciliature arranged in two fields each approximately symmetrical with respect to the sagittal plane of the cell body, with 4 to 6 sublongitudinal kineties. Reproduction by division at the apical end of the body, with tomites aligned in sequence and parallel to the long axis of the tomont body. Tomites are discoidal or hemispherical, with 1 to 10 circlets of cilia placed on the periphery of the body, and without cytostome.

Type species Conidophrys pilisuctor Chatton et Lwoff, 1934 as a junior synonym of Mycodinium fucatum Averinzeff, 1916 .