Redescription of Antetintinnidium mucicola (Claparede and Lachmann, 1858) nov. gen., nov. comb. (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Tintinnina).

ABSTRACT: Tintinnid ciliates have traditionally been described and classified exclusively based on their lorica features. Although information on the cell characters is urgently needed for a natural classification, more molecular than cytological data has been accumulated over recent years. Apparently, the tintinnids developed in the marine environment and entered freshwater several times independently. Typical freshwater tintinnids belong to the genera Tintinnidium and Membranicola. The species are comparatively well-known regarding their morphology and characterised by two unusual de novo originating ciliary rows, the ventral organelles. In contrast, the cell features in the marine/brackish Tintinnidium species, specifically their somatic ciliary patterns, are insufficiently known or not known at

SUBMITTER: Ganser MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736674 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature