A new species of genus Rhabdophrya (Ciliophora: Suctorea) from the west coast of India and comments on the genus taxonomy
Author
Chatterjee, Tapas
Near Hari Mandir Road, Hirapur, Dhanbad 826004, Jharkhand, India.
Author
Dovgal, Igor
0000-0002-3876-233X
A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, 2, Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia. dovgal- 1954 @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3876 - 233 X
dovgal-1954@mail.ru
Author
Sautya, Sabyasachi
Laboratory for Benthic Ecological Trait Analysis (L-BETA), Biological Oceanography Division, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, RegionalCentre, Mumbai - 400053, India.
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-26
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10.11646/zootaxa.5178.3.8
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Genus
Rhabdophrya
Chatton & Collin, 1910
=
Stylarcon
Jankowski, 1981
Diagnosis:
Suctorian ciliates with unloricate, unbrahched, stalked, elongated, slightly laterally flattened, ribbonlike or sac-like body. Rod like tentacles (pachytenes—term of
Jankowski, 2007
) are evenly distributed or arranged in fascicles along the lateral edge of body. Macronucleus elongated or long, band-like. Reproduction by exogemmic budding with forming of lateral unciliary, vermiform swarmer (vermigemmy).
Type
species
Rhabdophrya trimorpha
Chatton & Collin, 1910
.