TY - JOUR
TI - Morphology of Two Novel Species of Chaenea (Ciliophora, Litostomatea): Chaenea paucistriata spec. nov. and C. sinica spec. nov.
AU - Fan, Xinpeng
AU - Xu, Yuan
AU - Gu, Fukang
AU - Li, Jiqiu
AU - Al-Farraj, Saleh A.
AU - Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S.
AU - Hu, Xiaozhong
TI - Morphology of Two Novel Species of Chaenea (Ciliophora, Litostomatea): Chaenea paucistriata spec. nov. and C. sinica spec. nov.
AB - During faunistic studies of ciliates in coastal waters of Daya Bay and Bohai Bay, China, two previously unknown ciliates were discovered and investigated using standard taxonomic methods. Morphological comparative analyses revealed that they represent two novel species in the genusChaenea. Chaenea paucistriata spec. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners by the following traits: body length in vivo about 180–250 µm; eight somatic kineties; dorsal brush rows 1–4 consisting of three, five, seven, and two dikinetids, respectively; rod-like extrusomes, 8 µm long; 63–94 macronuclei; cortical granules minute and colourless. Chaenea sinica spec. nov. differs from its congeners in having: body length in vivo about 140–240 µm; 17–21 somatic kineties; dorsal brush rows 1–4 consisting of 3–7, 10 or 11, 11–13, and 3–6 dikinetids, respectively; rod-like extrusomes about 6–8 µm long; 71–164 macronuclei. A key is presented to assist the identification of allChaenea species.
VL - 2015
IS - Volume 54, Issue 2
PY - 2015
SN - 0065-1583
C1 - 1689-0027
SP - 97
EP - 106
DO - 10.4467/16890027AP.15.008.2733
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/acta-protozoologica/article/morphology-of-two-novel-species-of-chaenea-ciliophora-litostomatea-chaenea-paucistriata-spec-nov-and-c-sinica-spec-nov
KW - Chaenea
KW - ciliary pattern
KW - identification key
KW - marine ciliates
KW - new species
KW - taxonomy