Taxonomic survey on ciliate diversity in eastern area of Kangwon-province, Korea: Brief records of fifteen species unrecorded from Korea
Author
Kim, Ji-Yeong
Author
Jung, Jae-Ho
text
Journal of Species Research
2016
2016-10-31
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3
333
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http://dx.doi.org/10.12651/jsr.2016.5.3.333
journal article
10.12651/JSR.2016.5.3.333
2713-8615
13145003
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Anteholosticha distyla
(Buitkamp, 1977) Berger
,
2003 (
Fig. 2B
)
Diagnosis:
Body size 125 × 25 μm in protargol preparations; body shape elongated ellipsoidal, flattened dorsoventrally, both body ends rounded; flexible. Nuclear apparatus composed of ca. 20 macronuclear nodules with several micronuclei at left midbody. Cytoplasm colorless. Movement, without any peculiarities, crawling on soil surface. Cirri, on average, composed of three frontal cirri, one buccal cirri, two frontoterminal cirri, fifteen midventral cirral pairs, two pretransverse ventral cirri, two transverse cirri, one left and one right marginal cirral row.
Remark:
The genus
Anteholosticha
is one of the speciesrich groups in the class
Spirotrichea
. More than 40 species belonging to the genus have been described and they are nonmonophyletic (
Park
et al.
, 2013
). Eight species including
A. distyla
have been recorded in
Korea
(
Shin and Kim, 1993
;
Li
et al.
, 2011
;
Park
et al.
, 2012
;
Shin, 2012
;
Kim
et al.
, 2013
;
Park
et al.
, 2013
).
Voucher slides:
Two slides including protargolimpregnated specimens have been deposited in the National Institute of Biological Resources in
Korea
(NIBRPR0000 107116, NIBRPR0000107117).