<documentid="D04BA41CD64B3E5A511F4EEEE4F0CFA7"ID-DOI="10.4467/16890027AP.12.003.0386"ID-ISSN="1689-0027"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13192781"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="GgImagineBatch"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1722623649681"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Pan, Ying, Li, Liqiong, Shao, Chen, Hu, Xiaozhong, Ma, Honggang, Alrasheid, Khaled A. S. & Warren, Alan"docDate="2012"docId="C16BC273FF9C983E6D52FAF631C65F94"docLanguage="en"docName="ActaProtozool.51.1.29-38.pdf"docOrigin="Acta Protozoologica 51 (1)"docSource="https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/b445a061-8587-3274-9c39-e111e9b54a41/"docStyle="DocumentStyle:A2410F4AEE1F22C18462D14A0D03D0BF.1:ActaProtozool.2012-2013.journal_article"docStyleId="A2410F4AEE1F22C18462D14A0D03D0BF"docStyleName="ActaProtozool.2012-2013.journal_article"docStyleVersion="1"docTitle="Euplotes balteatus Song & Wilbert 2002"docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="37"masterDocId="3D52BA0BFF9A98366E19FFFF34635E2A"masterDocTitle="Morphology and Ontogenesis of a Marine Ciliate, Euplotes balteatus (Dujardin, 1841) Kahl, 1932 (Ciliophora, Euplotida) and Definition of Euplotes wilberti nov. spec."masterLastPageNumber="38"masterPageNumber="29"pageNumber="35"updateTime="1722677012546"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0">
<mods:titleid="EF0293000E6C2A00C3C8B83A8810EB14">Morphology and Ontogenesis of a Marine Ciliate, Euplotes balteatus (Dujardin, 1841) Kahl, 1932 (Ciliophora, Euplotida) and Definition of Euplotes wilberti nov. spec.</mods:title>
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<bibRefCitationid="2D530E94FF9C98306A91FA8231C35BBD"author="Song W. & Wilbert N."box="[1160,1440,1404,1431]"pageId="6"pageNumber="35"pagination="23 - 61"refId="ref5964"refString="Song W., Wilbert N. (2002) Faunistic studies on marine ciliates from the Antarctic benthic area, including descriptions of one epizoic form, 6 new species and 2 new genera (Protozoa: Ciliophora). Acta Protozool. 41: 23 - 61"type="journal article"year="2002">Song and Wilbert 2002</bibRefCitation>
<figureCitationid="D1F96FE0FF9C98306B05F9CF31FC5860"box="[1308,1439,1584,1610]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="6.[121,156,937,959]"captionTargetBox="[193,1381,227,891]"captionTargetId="figure-9@6.[181,1391,212,901]"captionTargetPageId="6"captionText="Fig. 4A–K. Euplotes balteatus and Euplotes wilberti nov. spec. from life (A, G), after protargol (D, J, K) and silver nitrate (B, C, E, F, H, I) impregnation. Arrows point to the marginal cirri. A – ventral view of Euplotes balteatus, to show the ventral ciliature (from Kahl 1932); B, C – ventral and dorsal views of Euplotes balteatus, showing the silverline systerm (from Tuffrau 1964); D – Euplotes balteatus, to show variations in the shape of the macronucleus; E, F – ventral and dorsal views showing the silverline system; G–K – Euplotes wilberti nov. spec., to show the live morphology (G), silverline system (H, I), infraciliature (J, K) and macronucleus (K) (from Song and Wilbert 2002). Scale bar: 30 µm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13192789"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13192789/files/figure.png"pageId="6"pageNumber="35">Fig. 4G–K</figureCitation>
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in several respects including: 1) the dorsal grooves (distinct vs. inconspicuous in
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); 2) marginal cirri (densely ranged vs. widely separated in
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,
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,
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,
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). These are significant differences from which we conclude that the
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.
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Indeed, it cannot be identified with any known species of
so we therefore establish a new species for this population,
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). Unfortunately the slide was not registered so it is not currently possible to declare a
, in recognition of his contributions to the study of ciliates as well as his excellent descriptions of this organism (
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)
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and
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Table 2 summarizes the main characters that define these species. From these data it can be seen that
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