New records of one marine and two soil ciliates (Ciliophora: Intramacronucleata) from Korea
Author
Min, Mi-Hyun Park and Gi-Sik
mingisik@inha.ac.kr
text
Journal of Species Research
2019
8
1
113
115
journal article
10.12651/JSR.2019.8.1.113
2713-8615
12753624
3.
Frontonia canadensis
Roque and Puytorac, 1972
ẅêṈŦḋflḝ(신%) (
Fig. 1E
)
Material examined
.
Collected from seawater at
Bongpo Port
,
Bongpo-ri
,
Toseong-myeon
,
Goseong-gun
,
Gangwon-do
,
Korea
(
38°15
ʹ
N
,
128°34
ʹ
E
),
October 22, 2017
.
Diagnosis
. Size approximately 95-110 × 45-60 μm after protargol impregnation; ellipsoidal body outline, anterior and posterior ends slightly narrow, body length to width ratio of 1.6-2.5: 1; spindle-shaped extrusomes densely arranged beneath pellicle; buccal field approximately 19% of body length; approximately 88 somatic kineties; 3 or 4 vestibular and 5 postoral kineties; peniculi 1-3 each with 4 kinety rows; 1 ellipsoidal macronucleus; one contractile vacuole.
Voucher slide
. A slide of protargol-impregnated specimens has been deposited at the National Institute of Biological Resources,
Korea
(NIBRPR0000109476).
Remarks
.
Frontonia canadensis
was originally describ- ed by
Roque and Puytorac (1972)
and re-described by
Pan
et al.
(2013)
. The Korean population of
F. canadensis
closely resembles the description of the Chinese population in terms of the body shape, the number of somatic, postoral, and vestibular kineties, and the number of peniculi 1-3 kinety rows (
Pan
et al.
, 2013
).