New records of terrestrial and freshwater ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from Korea: Brief descriptions with notes
Author
Lee, Sue Yeon
Author
Yoo, Jung Sun
Author
Kim, Seung Tae
text
Journal of Species Research
2017
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13163363
journal article
10.12651/JSR.2017.6
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Anteholosticha antecirrata
Berger, 2006
(
Fig. 2C
)
Diagnosis.
Body size 120-145 × 45-65 μm in protargol preparations; 250 × 75 μm
in vivo
; body shape elongat- ed ellipsoidal, flattened dorsoventrally, both body ends rounded; flexible. Nuclear apparatus composed of more than 100 macronuclear nodules with several spherical micronuclei throughout cytoplasm. Contractile vacuole anterior of left mid-body. Cortical granules arranged in longitudinal rows; yellow-greenish. Cytoplasm colourless. Movement, without any peculiarities, crawling on soil surface. Cirri pattern, on average, composed of 3 frontal cirri, 2 or 3 buccal cirri, 2 frontoterminal cirri, 2 pretransverse ventral cirri, 9-11 transverse cirri, 1 left and 1 right marginal row; transverse cirri anteriorly displaced; 3 dorsal kineties.
Remarks.
The genus
Anteholosticha
is a species-rich taxon with more than 40 reported species (
Berger, 2006
). As in the species-group name, the etymology refers to the anteriorly displaced transverse cirri that barely project beyond the rear body end (
Berger, 2006
).
Voucher slides.
Two slides, including protargol-impregnated specimens (TB9), were deposited at the National Institute of Biological Resources in
Korea
(NIBR PR0000107181, NIBRPR0000107182).