Free-living Heterotrophic Flagellates from Intertidal Sediments of Saros Bay, Aegean Sea (Turkey)
Author
Aydin, Esra Elif
Author
Lee, Won Je
text
Acta Protozoologica
2012
51
2
119
137
https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/6cf3745c-7fc3-3086-8e0b-e266c329ac0d/
journal article
10.4467/16890027AP.12.010.0514
1689-0027
13192960
Petalomonas marginalis
Larsen
et
Patterson 1990
(
Figs 3a
,
4m
)
Observation:
Cells are 23–25 μm long, oblong but with a narraw anterior part. A small ingestion apparatus is visible subapically near the canal. The cells have a strongly ridged dorsal groove, which runs along the right lateral side of the cell. One flagellum emerges from the flagellar canal and is slightly longer than the cell. The reservoir is located on the right ventral side of the cell and the nucleus is in the middle or posterior part of the cell. The cells move by gliding. Description based on two cells.
Remarks:
Generally, our observations are in good agreement with those of
Larsen and Patterson (1990)
and
Lee (2006a)
. This species is easily distinguished from other species in the genus
Petalomonas
by the ridged groove and the visible ingestion apparatus. It has been previoulsy reported from
Fiji
, the German Bight of the North Sea and
Australia
with cell length of 20–45 μm (
Larsen and Patterson 1990
,
Hoppenrath 2000
,
Lee 2006a
).