TY - JOUR
AU - Song, Wen
AU - Li, Jiamei
AU - Huang, Yaoyao
AU - Hu, Xiaozhong
AU - Liu, Weiwei
AU - Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S.
AU - Miao, Miao
TI - &lt;p&gt;
	Morphology of Three Aloricate Choreotrich ciliates, Including Description of a New Species &lt;em&gt;Parastrombidinopsis costalis&lt;/em&gt; sp. n. (Ciliophora, Choreotrichia), and phylogeny of the genus &lt;em&gt;Parastrombidinopsis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
JF - Acta Protozoologica
VL - 2018
PY - 2019
DO = 10.4467/16890027AP.18.013.10089
SN - 0065-1583
C1 - 1689-0027
SP - 153
EP - 167
KW - choreotrich ciliates
KW - ciliature
KW - new combination
KW - Strombidinopsidae
KW - SSU rRNA gene
KW - taxonomy
N2 - &lt;p&gt;As a follow-up part of our studies of the tropical ciliate fauna carried out in the last decade, we investigated the morphology and phylogeny of three choreotrich ciliates, viz, &lt;em&gt;Parastrombidinopsis costalis&lt;/em&gt; sp. n., &lt;em&gt;P. pelagica&lt;/em&gt; (Fauré-Fremiet, 1924) comb. n. and &lt;em&gt;P. minima&lt;/em&gt; Tsai &lt;em&gt;et al.&lt;/em&gt;, 2008. The new species is characterized by its unique asymmetrical cell shape, 19–21 collar membranelles, one buccal membrane, and eight unevenly distributed somatic kineties.An improved diagnosis of &lt;em&gt;P. pelagica&lt;/em&gt;(Fauré-Fremiet, 1924) comb. n.is given based on the original and current studies, the species is characterized by a large cell size, an elongate obconical cell shape, 31–36 collar membranelles and 13–15 somatic kineties. The species &lt;em&gt;P. minima&lt;/em&gt;is redescribed based on a new population with some new features supplemented.SSU rRNA genes of both the new species and &lt;em&gt;P. minima&lt;/em&gt; were sequenced and a phylogenetic review of related taxa obtained has been performed in order to reveal their systematic relationships. The monophyly of the genus &lt;em&gt;Parastrombidinopsis&lt;/em&gt; is highly supported in our phylogenetic analyses.&lt;/p&gt;
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/acta-protozoologica/article/morphology-of-three-aloricate-choreotrich-ciliates-including-description-of-a-new-species-parastrombidinopsis-costalis-sp-n-ciliophora-choreotrichia-and-phylogeny-of-the-genus-parastrombidinopsis