Collinia oregonensis

Collinia oregonensis
SEM image of Collinia oregonensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	SAR
(unranked):	Alveolata
Phylum:	Ciliophora
Class:	Oligohymenophorea
Order:	Apostomatida
Family:	Colliniidae
Genus:	Collinia
Species:	C. oregonensis
Binomial name
Collinia oregonensis (Gómez-Gutiérrez, Peterson & Morado, 2006)

Collinia oregonensis is a species of parasitoid ciliates of the Colliniidae family. It is known to infect the krill Euphausia pacifica, , and off the coast of Oregon and Washington. It caused a mass mortality of E. pacifica in June 2001 at the base of Astoria Canyon.

References[]

• "Discovery of a ciliate parasitoid of euphausiids off Oregon, USA: Collinia oregonensis n. sp. (Apostomatida: Colliniidae)" (PDF). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 71: 33–49. July 2006. doi:10.3354/dao071033.
• Gómez-Gutiérrez, Jaime (2003). "Mass mortality of krill caused by parasitoid ciliates". Comparative Study of the Population Dynamics, Secondary Productivity, and Reproductive Ecology of the Euphausiids Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera in the Oregon Upwelling Region (Ph.D.). Oregon State University. Retrieved 24 December 2013.

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