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Redescription of Polyplastron alaskum Dehority, 1974 (Ciliophora, Entodiniomorphida), a Rare Rumen Ciliate Species from Domestic and Wild Sheep

Publication date: 2020

Acta Protozoologica, 2020, Volume 59, Issue 2, pp. 61 - 65

https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.20.005.12673

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Franciane Cedrola
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora / Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Marta D'agosto
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, UFRRJ, RJ, Brazil
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Isabel Martinele
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, UFRRJ, RJ, Brazil
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Roberto Júnio Pedroso Dias
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora / Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Redescription of Polyplastron alaskum Dehority, 1974 (Ciliophora, Entodiniomorphida), a Rare Rumen Ciliate Species from Domestic and Wild Sheep

Abstract

The present study redescribes the species Polyplastron alaskum based on morphological characterization and provides, for the first time, data on its infraciliary bands pattern. Polyplastron alaskum was described in Alaskan dall montain sheep (Ovis dalli), and registered again only in the present study, 45 years later, inhabiting the rumen contents of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) in northeastern Brazil. All the taxonomic characters observed in the original description was observed in the present study. The infraciliary pattern in Polyplastron alaskum is slightly different of Diplodinium-type, observed in some ophryoscolecids belonging to the subfamily Diplodiniinae.

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Information: Acta Protozoologica, 2020, Volume 59, Issue 2, pp. 61 - 65

Article type: Original article

Authors

Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora / Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, UFRRJ, RJ, Brazil

Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, UFRRJ, RJ, Brazil

Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora / Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Published at: 2020

Received at: 16.12.2019

Accepted at: 31.03.2020

Article status: Open

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Percentage share of authors:

Franciane Cedrola (Author) - 25%
Marta D'agosto (Author) - 25%
Isabel Martinele (Author) - 25%
Roberto Júnio Pedroso Dias (Author) - 25%

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