New records of nine ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from Korea: Brief descriptions and remarks
Author
Min, Kang-San Kim and Gi-Sik
mingisik@inha.ac.kr
text
Journal of Species Research
2018
7
4
315
322
journal article
10.12651/JSR.2018.7.4.315
2713-8615
13161307
5.
Terricirra matsusakai
Berger & Foissner, 1989
(
Fig. 5
)
Material examined.
Soil
sample taken from
Wangsan-ri Jung-gu
,
Incheon
,
South Korea
(
37°26
ʹ
47
ʺ
N
126°23
ʹ
40
ʺ
E
) on
February 2018
.
Diagnosis.
Cell size about 80 × 15 μm in protargol preparations, elongated ellipsoidal body shaped, flexible; adoral zone about 25% of body length; contractile vacuole at left mid-body; 4 macronuclear nodules with 2 or 3 micronuclei; 3 frontal and 2 frontoterminal cirri; 1 buccal cirrus; 4 cirri in left of anterior end of amphisiellid median cirral row; 1 pretransverse ventral cirrus and 3 transverse cirri; 1 left (about 26 cirri) and 1 right (about 25 cirri) marginal cirral row; 4 dorsal kineties (including dorsal marginal kineties); caudal cirri lacking.
Remarks.
The Korean population only differs from the
type
population (
Japan
) in pretransverse ventral cirri (present vs. absent) (
Berger and Foissner, 1989
). This species can be separated from
Hemisincirra quadrinucleata
, by the adoral zone pattern of membranelles (continuous vs. discontinuous) and the number of dorsal kineties (4 vs. 3) (
Berger, 2008
).
Deposition.
One voucher slide with protargol-impregnated specimens is deposited in the National Institute of Biological Resources in
Korea
(NIBRPR0000109448).