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
4.
Hemiamphisiella granulifera
(
Foissner, 1987
)
Foissner, 1988
(
Fig. 4
)
Material examined.
Terrestrial
moss collected from
Mt. Odaesan
,
Yeongok-myeon
,
Ganungneung-si
,
Gangwon-do
,
Korea
(
37°44
ʹ
8
ʺ
N
,
128°35
ʹ
16
ʺ
E
) on
16 December 2017
.
Diagnosis.
Body size about 120 × 30 μm after protargol impregnation; body elongated elliptical shape; 2 ellipsoidal macronuclear nodules; 1 spherical micronucleus; 29- 36 adoral membranelles; 3 frontal cirri; 1 buccal cirrus; 40-46 cirri in amphisiellid median cirral row; about 5 cirri in right ventral row; transverse cirri lacking; 2(?) caudal cirri; 3 dorsal kineties.
Distribution.
Korea
,
Kenya
, and
Portugal
.
Remarks.
The Korean population of
H. granulifera
corresponds with the
type
population, except for the number of right ventral cirri (five vs. three) (
Berger, 2008
). Regarding the caudal cirri, the number is seemingly two in our population as in the original description by
Foissner (1987)
; however, as
Foissner (1987)
and
Berger (2008)
mentioned, it is difficult to distinguish from the left mar- ginal row.
Voucher slides.
Two slides of protargol-impregnated specimens were deposited at National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBRPR0000109478, NIBRPR0000109477).