Seven scuticociliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Alabama, USA, with descriptions of two parasitic species isolated from a freshwater mussel Potamilus purpuratus
Author
Xuming Pan
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2016
249
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19
journal article
37563
10.5852/ejt.2016.249
09521c67-41e4-40da-9d43-97412eb789e9
118-9773
200009
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:43278833-B695-4375-B1BD-E98C28A9E50E
Pleuronema setigerum
Calkins, 1902
Remarks and comparison
Kahl (1931)
redescribed this species, and
Borror (1963a)
described its infraciliature but gave only a diagram of the buccal morphology.
Pan
et al.
(2010)
offered improved diagnoses of this species based on a Chinese population. Cells of the North American population matched previous descriptions of the species in all morphological characters, except body size
in vivo
(50–70 × 25–35 μm vs 30–50 × 15–30 μm).