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Pseudodifflugia klarae nov. spec., Bereczkya minuta nov. gen. nov. spec. and Paramphitrema muelleri nov. spec.: Three New Filose Testate Amoebae from the Plankton of the River Danube

Publication date: 2009

Acta Protozoologica, 2009, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp. 97 - 110

Authors

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Áron Keve Kiss
Hungarian Danube Research Station, Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Göd, Hungary
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Júlia Katalin Török
Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Éva Ács
Hungarian Danube Research Station, Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Göd, Hungary
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Keve Tihamér Kiss
Hungarian Danube Research Station, Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Göd, Hungary
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Pseudodifflugia klarae nov. spec., Bereczkya minuta nov. gen. nov. spec. and Paramphitrema muelleri nov. spec.: Three New Filose Testate Amoebae from the Plankton of the River Danube

Abstract

Three new, minute testate amoeban species smaller than 15 μm, including one new genus, are described from the plankton of the River Danube (Hungary) using high resolution video micrography. Pseudodifflugia klarae nov. spec. is characterised by an oval/pyriform, rigid, slightly compressed, scarcely or densely agglutinated test with a length of 8–14 μm. Its aperture is irregular in outline and inconspicuous; the nucleus contains one nucleolus and a few bent rods in the nucleoplasm. Bereczkya nov. gen., an incertae sedis cercozoan, has a minute spherical cell enclosed in a thin, rigid, more or less agglutinated organic test that is filled entirely by the cytoplasm. Its test bears an irregular and inconspicuous aperture. A collar-like ectoplasmic rim is situated in the aperture, from which a pseudopodial stem with filopodia is erected. The nucleus is slightly irregular, without a central nucleolus, but it contains rod-shaped granules in the nucleoplasm. Bereczkya minuta nov. spec. (test length: 3.5–8 μm, the diameter of the ectoplasmic rim: 0.8–2.3 μm) has a spherical test with asymmetric swellings and depressions, agglutinated with refractile mineral and other flat or irregularly-shaped xenosomes that may sometimes be almost entirely absent. Paramphitrema muelleri nov. spec. has a tubular or lemon-like test (length: 13–17 μm), which tapers towards the rigid apertures. The test is rigid, agglutinated and ism circular in cross section. The nucleus is vesicular. Thin filopodia, as well as 1–2 thick, straight, unbranched, tubular pseudopodia are produced.

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Information: Acta Protozoologica, 2009, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp. 97 - 110

Article type: Original article

Authors

Hungarian Danube Research Station, Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Göd, Hungary

Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Hungarian Danube Research Station, Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Göd, Hungary

Hungarian Danube Research Station, Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Göd, Hungary

Published at: 2009

Article status: Open

Licence: None

Percentage share of authors:

Áron Keve Kiss (Author) - 25%
Júlia Katalin Török (Author) - 25%
Éva Ács (Author) - 25%
Keve Tihamér Kiss (Author) - 25%

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