Conidophrys pіtelkae Bradbury, 1975: 162 (Fig. 1 K–N, 4F) Mycodinium pіtelkae (Bradbury, 1975) Jankowski, 2007: 880, syn. n. The trophont stages are found attached to the cuticular secretory setae of shrimp host. The trophont body is elongate, slender cone shaped, and enclosed in a thin and transparent cyst. Four short, straight, unciliated kineties, are longitudinally oriented on trophont middle right surface, and a similar field of six kineties on left lateral surface. Macronucleus is long, serpentine, with conspicuous endosomes, fan-shaped at distal end. Spindle-shaped micronucleus is located at left distal end of macronucleus. There is single contractile vacuole. Reproduction by successive linear palintomy forming a single tomite. Tomite is a flattened hemisphere with dorsal surface curved. Two large ventral depressions, anterior leads to cytostome. Five kineties form a ciliary fringe encircling partly the tomite lateral surface, whereas other five kineties form the ventral ciliature. Macronucleus of tomite is rod-shaped and oriented antero-posteriorly. Measurements (in µm): Trophont length from 30 to 100, width from 18 to 27 (after Bradbury, 1975). Type host: Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758). Type locality: Roscoff (France).

Published as part of Dovgal, Igor & Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura, 2015, A taxonomic revision of order Pilisuctorida (Ciliophora, Apostomatia) with keys to the subordinate taxa, pp. 543-558 in Zootaxa 4040 (5) on pages 551-552, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/238595