New records of 24 ciliate species (Protozoa, Ciliophora) collected in South Korea
Author
Kim, Ji Hye
Natural Science Research Institute, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
Author
Jung, Ji Hye Moon and Jae-Ho
text
Journal of Species Research
2018
7
4
291
314
journal article
10.12651/JSR.2018.7.4.291
2713-8615
13163147
19.
Urozona buetschlii
Schewiakoff, 1889
(
Fig. 19
)
Material examined.
Freshwater
collected from
Gyeongpocheon River
,
Unjeong-dong
,
Gangneung-si
,
Gangwon-do
,
Korea
(
37°47
ʹ
20
ʺ
N
,
128°54
ʹ
34
ʺ
E
) on
April 12, 2018
.
Diagnosis.
Body size 12-15 × 9-12 μm after protargol impregnation; dumb-bell shape
in vivo
; single oval macronucleus; merged peniculi 2 + 3; undulating membrane present but inconspicuous; equatorially arranged girdle-like 23-25 somatic kineties; obliquely extended somatic kineties on right of oral field; longitudinally arranged somatic kineties on dorsal side; shortest somatic kineties on left of oral field.
Distribution.
Austria
,
France
,
Germany
,
Hungary
,
Italia
,
Korea
.
Remarks.
The extended first somatic kinety on the right side was easily mistaken to be undulating membrane (
Foissner
et al
., 1994
;
Olmo
et al
., 1998
).
Urozona
is a monotypic genus and recognized by a dumb-bell shaped body and equatorially restricted somatic kineties (
Foissner
et al
., 1994
).
Voucher slide.
One slide of protargol-impregnated specimens was deposited at National Institute of Biological Resources,
Korea
(NIBRPR0000109423).