FAQ
Jagiellonian University logo

A New Marine Cyrtophorid Ciliate, Dysteria nabia nov. spec. (Ciliophora: Phyllopharyngea: Cyrtophorida: Dysteriidae), from South Korea

Publication date: 27.08.2014

Acta Protozoologica, 2014, Volume 53, Issue 3, pp. 257 - 268

https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.14.023.1998

Authors

,
Mi-Hyun Park
Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon 22212, South Korea
All publications →
Gi-Sik Min
Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon 22212, South Korea
All publications →

Titles

A New Marine Cyrtophorid Ciliate, Dysteria nabia nov. spec. (Ciliophora: Phyllopharyngea: Cyrtophorida: Dysteriidae), from South Korea

Abstract

We discovered a new marine cyrtophorid ciliate, Dysteria nabia nov. spec., in Incheon Harbor in the Yellow Sea and at Ihoteu Beach on Jeju-do Island, South Korea. This new species is described based on live observations, protargol impregnation, and silver nitrate impregnation. Dysteria nabiameasures approximately 94 × 45 µm in vivo and has an oval to elliptical form, with a subcaudally positioned podite; 5 right kineties, with a single shortened innermost right kinety; usually 3 left frontal kineties; and 2 contractile vacuoles. The length of the small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene sequence is 1,700 bp. In comparison with the five previously identified sequences ofDysteria species, the inter-specific similarity of D. nabia ranges from 91.5 to 98.4%.

References

Download references

Chen X., Gong J., Al-Rasheid K. A. S., Farraj S. A., Song W. (2011) New contribution to the morphological taxonomy of three marine cyrtophorid ciliates from the Yellow Sea, China (Ciliophora: Cyrtophorida). Acta Protozool50: 105–119

Corliss J. O. (1953) Silver impregnation of ciliated protozoa by the Chatton-Lwoff technic. Stain Technol. 28: 97–100

Corliss J. O. (1979) The ciliated protozoa. Characterization, classification and guide to the literature. 2nd edn. Pergamon Press, Oxford

Darriba D., Taboada G. L., Doallo R., Posada D. (2012) jModel-­Test 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing. Nat. Methods 9: 772

Deroux G. (1965) Origine des cinéties antérieures, gauches et buccales dans le genre Dysteria Huxley. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris 260: 6689–6691

Dragesco J. (1966) Obsevation sur quelques Cilies libres. Arch. Protistenkd109: 155–206

Fauré-Fremiet E. (1965) Morphologie des Dysteriidae (Ciliata Cyrtophorina). Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris 260: 6679–6684

Foissner W. (1991) Basic light and scanning electron microscopic methods for taxonomic studies of ciliated protozoa. Eur. J. Protistol27: 313–330

Gong J., Dong J., Liu X., Massana R. (2013) Extremely high copy numbers and polymorphisms of the rDNA operon estimated from single cell analysis of oligotrich and peritrich ciliates. Protist 164: 369–379

Gong J., Lin X. F., Song W. (2003) Redescription of a poorly-known marine cyrtophorid ciliate, Dysteria pusilla (Claparède et Lachmann, 1859) (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Cyrtophorida) from Qingdao, China. Acta Protozool42: 215–221

Gong J., Song W. (2003) Morphology and infraciliature of two marine benthic ciliates, Dysteria procera Kahl, 1931 and Dysteria magna nov. spec. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida), from China. Eur. J. Protistol39: 301–309

Gong J., Song W. (2004) Description of a new marine cyrtophorid ciliate, Dysteria derouxi nov. spec., with an updated key to 12 well-investigated Dysteria species (Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida). Eur. J. Protistol40: 13–19

Gong J., Song W., Warren A. (2002) Redescriptions of two marine cyrtophorid ciliates, Dysteria cristata (Gourret and Roeser, 1888) Kahl, 1931 and Dysteria monostyla (Ehrenberg, 1838) Kahl, 1931 (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida), from China. Eur. J. Protistol38: 213–222

Gong J., Song W., Warren A., Lin X., Roberts D. M. (2007) Microscopical observations on four marine Dysteria species (Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida). Eur. J. Protistol43: 147–161

Guindon S., Gascuel O. (2003) A simple, fast, and accurate algorithm to estimate large phylogenies by maximum likelihood. Syst. Biol. 52: 696–704

Hu X., Suzuki T. (2005) Light microscopical observations on two marine dysteriid ciliates from Japan, including a description of Dysteria yagiui nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida). Eur. J. Protistol41: 29–36

Jeanmougin F., Thompson J. D., Gouy M., Higgins D. G., Gibson T. J. (1998) Multiple sequence alignment with Clustal X. Trends Biochem. Sci. 23: 403–405

Jung J.-H., Baek Y.-S., Kim S., Choi H.-G., Min G.-S. (2011) 

A new marine ciliate, Metaurostylopsis antarctica nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Urostylida) from the Antarctic Ocean. Acta Protozool50: 289–300

Kahl A. (1931) Urtiere oder Protozoa I: Wimpertiere oder Ciliata (Infusoria) 2. Holotricha außer den im 1. Teil behandelten Prostomata. Tierwelt Dtl21: 181–398

Pan H., Hu X., Gong J., Lin X., Al-Rasheid K. A. S., Al-Farraj S. A., Warren A. (2011) Morphological redescriptions of four marine ciliates (Ciliophora: Cyrtophorida: Dysteriidae) from Qingdao, China. Eur. J. Protistol47: 197–207

Petz W., Song W., Wilbert N. (1995) Taxonomy and ecology of the ciliate fauna (Protozoa, Ciliophora) in the endopagial and pelagial of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Stapfia 40: 1–223

Ronquist F., Huelsenbeck J. P. (2003) MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models. Bioinformatics 19: 1572–1574

Song W., Packroff G. (1997) Taxonomy and morphology of marine ciliates from China with description of two new species, Strombidium globosaneum nov. spec. and S. platum nov. spec. (Protozoa, Ciliophora). Arch. Protistenkd147: 331–360

Song W., Wilbert N. (2002) Faunistic studies on marine ciliates from the Antarctic benthic area, including descriptions of one epizoic form, 6 new species, and 2 new genera (Protozoa: Ciliophora). Acta Protozool41: 23–61

Tamura K., Dudley J., Nei M., Kumar S. (2007) MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Mol. Biol. Evol24: 1596–1599

Wilbert N. (1971) Morphologie und Ökologie einiger neuer Ciliaten (Holotricha, Cyrtophorina) des Aufwuchses. Protistologica 7: 357–363

Wilbert N., Song W. (2005) New contributions to the marine benthic ciliates from the Antarctic area, including description of seven new species (Protozoa, Ciliophora). J. Nat. Hist39: 935–973

Information

Information: Acta Protozoologica, 2014, Volume 53, Issue 3, pp. 257 - 268

Article type: Original article

Authors

Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon 22212, South Korea

Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon 22212, South Korea

Published at: 27.08.2014

Article status: Open

Licence: None

Percentage share of authors:

Mi-Hyun Park (Author) - 50%
Gi-Sik Min (Author) - 50%

Article corrections:

-

Publication languages:

English