Brief description of newly recorded eight ciliate species (Protozoa, Ciliophora) collected from South Korea Author Jung, Ji Hye Kim and Jae-Ho text Journal of Species Research 2019 8 4 380 388 journal article 10.12651/JSR.2019.8.4.380 2713-8615 13161281 5. Loxophyllum chinense Pan, Gao, Lin, Warren and Song, 2013 ( Fig. 5 ) Material examined. Brackish water (salinity 3‰) collected from Taehwagang river , Samsan-dong , Nam-gu , Ulsan-si , Korea ( 35°32 ʹ 55 ʺ N , 129°20 ʹ 12 ʺ E ) on 26 September 2018 . Diagnosis. Body size 110-130 × 30-45 μm in vivo; body shape lanceolate; highly contractile; cytoplasm colorless; extrusomes ventrally scattered, size about 6.0-7.0 × 0.5 μm; about 7-9 warts on dorsal side; 2 or 3 contractile vacuoles located subterminal to ventral side; 1 micronucleus in between 2 macronuclei; 12 or 13 right and 5 or 6 left somatic kineties; 3 perioral kineties; 2 left side furrows present; brackish water habitat. Distribution. Korea and China . Remarks. Loxophyllum is a speciose taxon with more than 60 nominal species ( Pan et al. , 2013a ). The Korean population of Loxophyllum chinense differs from the type population only in the habitat salinity (3‰ vs. ca. 20‰) ( Pan et al. , 2013a ). L. chinense can be distinguished from the most similar congener, L. perihoplophorum Buddenbrock, 1920 , in the body length (110-130 μm vs. about 400 μm) and the location of contractile vacuoles (ventral vs. dorsal) ( Kim and Min, 2015 ). Voucher slides. Two slides of protargol-impregnated specimens were deposited at National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBRPR0000109489, NIBRPR0000109490).