{"refrec":{"BRefID":312847,"RR":"<b>Ansari, K.G.M.T.; Bhadury, P.</b> (2017). Occurrence of epibionts associated with meiofaunal basibionts from the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem, the Sundarbans. <i>Mar. Biodiv. 47(2)</i>: 539-548. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0502-5\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0502-5</a>","BEntID":305211,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":0,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Mar. Biodiv. 47(2)</i>: 539-548. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0502-5\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0502-5</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Ansari, K.G.M.T.; Bhadury, P.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Ansari, K.G.M.T.; Bhadury, P.","Englishabstract":"Epibionts–basibionts interaction is an ecological relationship observed across terrestrial and aquatic environments. Ciliate epibionts associated with meiofaunal organisms are ubiquitous throughout marine ecosystems, but their distribution patterns remain largely unknown in mangrove habitats. We studied the occurrence of ciliate epibionts (peritrichids and suctorians) on meiofaunal organisms in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem, during early monsoon of 2015. The present study revealed that 1.13&nbsp;% of meiofaunal organisms (18 out of 2744 specimens) were infested by ciliate epibionts. The epibionts were found to be adhered to host organisms belonging to free-living nematodes and harpacticoid copepods. Four different species of ciliate epibionts (<em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Cothurnia nova</em>, <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Pleurophryodendron</em> sp., <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Thecacineta cothurnioides</em> and <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Trematosoma rotunda</em>) were associated with four different host meiofaunal species (<em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Chromaspirina parapontica</em>, <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Dorylaimposis punctata</em>, <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Stenhelia</em> sp. and <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Distioculus</em> sp.) as observed in this study. Among them, the epibionts <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Cothurnia nova</em> and <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Thecacineta cothurnioides</em> were found in July 2015, while the other epibiont species were encountered in August 2015. The detailed systematic and host frequency and remarks of each ciliate epibiont have been discussed in this study. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study which reports ciliate epibionts on meiofaunal basibionts from a mangrove ecosystem in India. 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