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| Species: | Z. niveum
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Zoothamnium niveum is a species of ciliate protozoan which forms feather-shaped colonies in marine coastal environments. The ciliates form a symbiosis with sulfur-oxidizing chemosynthetic bacteria of the species "Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli", which live on the surface of the colonies and give them their unusual white color.
- ^ Warren, Alan (2009). "Zoothamnium niveum Ehrenberg, 1838". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 9 August 2017.