Cryptobia helicis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Parabodonida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Protozoa Subregnum: Eozoa Infraregnum: Euglenozoa Phylum: Euglenozoa Subphylum: Glycomonada Classis: Kinetoplastea Subclassis: Metakinetoplastina Ordo: Parabodonida

Familia: Trypanoplasmataceae
Genus: Cryptobia
Species: Cryptobia helicis

Name

Cryptobia helicis Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 3: 100 (1846)

• Neotype: Slide USNM 1021509) [deposited in the United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., USA]: a smear preparation, impregnated by the protargol method, containing numerous individuals, considered to be syntypes, from the seminal receptacle of one Neohelix albolabris albolabris, collected near Newport, Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA – designated by E.N.Kozloff, Acta Protozool. 43: 126 (2004)

• Original host: in spermatheca of Neohelix albolabris, Triodopsis tridentata or Anguispira alternata

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Cryptoicus helicis (Leidy) Leidy, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 1: 67 (1847)
  • Bodo helicis (Leidy) Diesing, Syst. Helminth. 1: 45 (1850)
  • Cercomonas helicis (Leidy) Davaine, Dict. Encycl. Sci. Méd. Ser. 2, 9: 128 (1875)
  • Trypanoplasma helicis (Leidy) L.Friedrich, Arch. Protistenk. 14: 368 (1909)

References

Primary references

• Leidy, J. 1846. Description of a new genus and species of Entozoa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3(5): 100–101. BHL Reference page. 
• Leidy, J. 1847. [No title] Change the name of a new genus of Entozoa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3: 239. BHL Reference page. 
• Leidy, J. 1847. Miscellanea zoologica. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Series 2, 1(1): 67–70. BHL Reference page. 
• Diesing, K.M. 1850. Systema helminthum. Vol. 1. [i]–xiii [+ii], 1–680 pp. Vindobonae [Vienna]: sumptibus Academiae Caesareae Scientiarum. Online Google Books Reference page. 
• Friedrich, L. 1909. Über Bau und Naturgeschichte des Trypanoplasma helicis Leidy. Archiv für Protistenkunde 14(3): 363–395. ZOBODAT PDF Reference page. 

Additional references

• Moreira, D., López-García, P. & Vickerman, K. 2004. An updated view of kinetoplastid phylogeny using environmental sequences and a closer outgroup: proposal for a new classification of the class Kinetoplastea. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54(5): 1861–1875. DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63081-0 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Kozloff, E. N. 2004. Redescription of Cryptobia helicis Leidy, 1846 (Kinetoplasta: Bodonea: Cryptobiidae), disposition of flagellates mistakenly assigned to this species, and description of a new species from a North American pulmonate snail. Acta Protozoologica 43(2): 123–132. PDF