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
1
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
Mesanophrys
cf.
carcini
Small & Lynn
in
Aescht, 2001
The newly observed specimens resemble those of free-living forms of
Mesanophrys carcini
Small & Lynn in Aescht, 2001
in all respects except: numbers of somatic kineties (10 in parasitic forms vs 11 in free-living forms) and body shapes (variable in parasitic forms vs constant slim and spindle-shaped to long fusiform in free-living forms) (
Grolière & Leglise 1977
;
Song & Wilbert 2000
). These differences may be due to different life-styles and abundance of food sources.