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New Contribution to the Morphological Taxonomy of Three Marine Cyrtophorid Ciliates from the Yellow Sea, China (Ciliophora: Cyrtophorida)

Publication date: 15.05.2011

Acta Protozoologica, 2011, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp. 105 - 119

https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.11.012.0012

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Xiangrui Chen
School of Ocean, Yantai University, Yantai, China
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Jun Gong
College of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China; Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China
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Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid
Zoology Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Saleh A. Al-Farraj
Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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Weibo Song
Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity & Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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New Contribution to the Morphological Taxonomy of Three Marine Cyrtophorid Ciliates from the Yellow Sea, China (Ciliophora: Cyrtophorida)

Abstract

The morphology and infraciliature of three marine cyrtophorid ciliates, Dysteria lanceolata Claparède and Lachmann, 1859, Lynchella nordica Jankowski, 1968 and Chlamydonyx paucidentatus Deroux, 1976, collected from the coastal waters of Qingdao, China, were investigated using live observations and the protargol impregnation method. D. lanceolata was oval in body outline, about 65 × 45 μm in vivo, with a subcaudally positioned podite, six to seven right kineties, two or three frontoventral kineties, and two ventral contractile vacuoles. The improved diagnosis for L. nordica and a key to all known Lynchella species are supplied. The rediscovery of C. paucidentatus enables us to accept its taxonomic identification (e.g., separation from a morphologically similar species Trochilioides recta). The genus Trochilioides Deroux, nov. gen., which was a nomen nudum according to ICZN (1999), is re-established.

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Information: Acta Protozoologica, 2011, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp. 105 - 119

Article type: Original article

Authors

School of Ocean, Yantai University, Yantai, China

College of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China; Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China

Zoology Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity & Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China

Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Published at: 15.05.2011

Article status: Open

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Percentage share of authors:

Xiangrui Chen (Author) - 20%
Jun Gong (Author) - 20%
Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid (Author) - 20%
Saleh A. Al-Farraj (Author) - 20%
Weibo Song (Author) - 20%

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