An annotated and revised checklist of pleurostome ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) from Slovakia, Central Europe Author Vďačný, Peter Author Rajter, Ľubomír text Zootaxa 2014 3760 4 501 521 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3760.4.1 1b1f8bfa-3a27-4079-99bf-e2b0232c1b05 1175-5326 225465 A2E3A664-E992-40AB-8327-59998302652D Amphileptus parafusidens Song & Wilbert, 1989 Amphileptus parafusidens — Tirjaková 1992 a : 76 . Main morphological characters (according to Song & Wilbert 1989 ). Length 40–90 µm in vivo . Body narrowly to very narrowly drop-like, anterior end distinctly curved dorsally, posterior end narrowly rounded. Two macronuclear nodules with a single micronucleus in between. Contractile vacuole ventral and subterminal. Extrusomes ellipsoidal to broadly fusiform, about 2 µm long, few attached to anterior body end and several scattered in cytoplasm of anterior body half. Somatic ciliary pattern Amphileptus -like; 8–15 right and about 4–5 left kineties. Distribution. Amphileptus parafusidens was found in a channel passing across the castle’s park in Rusovce near the town of Bratislava ( Tirjaková 1992 a ). Notes. For further details on taxonomy and synonymy, see Issue 1 in ‘Notes and discussion on the checklist’.