Cothurnia, EHRENBERG, 1831

Semprucci, Barbara Mikac Federica, Guidi, Loretta, Ponti, Massimo, Abbiati, Marco, Balsamo, Maria & Dovgal, Igor, 2020, Newly discovered associations between peritrich ciliates (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) and scale polychaetes (Annelida: Polynoidae and Sigalionidae) with a review of polychaete-peritrich epibiosis, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188, pp. 939-953 : 941

GENUS COTHURNIA EHRENBERG, 1831

Diagnosis

Marine, brackish or freshwater loricate peritrichs, usually with one or two zooids per lorica. Lorica borne on a stalk and attached to aquatic animals, plants or inanimate objects. Lorica without valves or other means of closing the aperture. Inner layer or septum sometimes present enclosing a space at the posterior end of the lorica; septum connected to the base of the lorica via a mesostyle. Zooid(s) attached to the base of the lorica (or septum) directly or via an endostyle ( Warren & Paynter, 1991).