FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI The Cost for Biodiversity: Records of Ciliate–Nematode Epibiosis with the Description of Three New Suctorian Species BT AF Baldrighi, Elisa Dovgal, Igor Zeppilli, Daniela Abibulaeva, Alie Michelet, Claire Michaud, Emma Franzo, Annalisa Grassi, Eleonora Cesaroni, Lucia Guidi, Loretta Balsamo, Maria Sandulli, Roberto Semprucci, Federica AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:2;5:4;6:4;7:5;8:6;9:6;10:6;11:6;12:7;13:6; FF 1:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP;2:;3:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:; C1 Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies (IRBIM), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via Pola 4, 71010 Lesina, Italy A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, 299011 Sevastopol, Russia IFREMER, Centre Brest, REM/EEP/LEP, ZI de la Pointe du Diable, CS10070, F-29280 Plouzané, France LEMAR, Université Brest, CNRS, IRD, IFREMER, F-29280 Plouzane, France Oceanography Section, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, OGS I-34151 Trieste, Italy Department of Biomolecular Sciences (DiSB), University of Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’, loc. Crocicchia, 61029 Urbino, Italy Department of Science and Technology (DiST), Parthenope University Naples, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), 00196 Rome, Italy C2 CNR IRBIM, ITALY RUSSIAN ACAD SCI, RUSSIA IFREMER, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE OGS, ITALY UNIV URBINO, ITALY UNIV NAPLES, ITALY SI BREST SE PDG-REM-EEP-LEP UM LEMAR IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-int-hors-europe IF 3.031 TC 13 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00632/74417/74132.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00632/74417/74133.jpg https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00632/74417/74134.jpg https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00632/74417/74135.xlsx LA English DT Article CR PAMELA-MOZ01 BO L'Atalante DE ;epibiosis;ciliophora;suctorea;nematoda;meiofauna;biodiversity AB Epibiosis is a common phenomenon in marine systems. In marine environments, ciliates are among the most common organisms adopting an epibiotic habitus and nematodes have been frequently reported as their basibionts. In the present study, we report several new records of peritrich and suctorian ciliates-nematode association worldwide: from a deep-sea pockmark field in the NW Madagascar margin (Indian Ocean), from a shallow vent area in the Gulf of Naples (Mediterranean, Tyrrhenian Sea), in a MPA area in the Gulf of Trieste (Mediterranean, Adriatic Sea), from a mangrove system in French Guiana (South America, Atlantic Ocean), and from the Maldivian Archipelago. In addition, three new species of Suctorea from the Secca delle Fumose shallow vent area (Gulf of Naples) were described: Loricophrya susannae n. sp., Thecacineta fumosae n. sp. and Acinetopsis lynni n. sp. In the light of these new records and data from the existing literature, we discuss the suctorian–nematode epibiosis relationship as a lever to biodiversity. PY 2020 PD JUL SO Diversity-basel SN 1424-2818 PU MDPI AG VL 12 IS 6 UT 000553932300001 DI 10.3390/d12060224 ID 74417 ER EF