New contributions to the marine benthic ciliates from the Antarctic area, including description of seven new species (Protozoa, Ciliophora)

Abstract

Song (2005) New contributions to the marine benthic ciliates from the Antarctic area, including description of seven new species (Protozoa, Ciliophora),

Taxonomic studies on seven species of Dysteria (Ciliophora, Cyrtophoria), including a description of Dysteria paraprocera sp. n.

“…Over 30 nominal species have been reported so far, with information regarding infraciliature available for 20 of these (e.g. Chen et al 2011;Deroux 1965;Dragesco and Dragesco-Kernéis 1986;Fauré-Fremiet 1965;Song 2003, 2004;Gong et al 2002Gong et al , 2003Gong et al , 2007Hu and Suzuki 2005;Pan et al 2011;Park and Min 2014;Petz et al 1995;Song and Packroff 1997;Song and Wilbert 2002;Wilbert 1971;Wilbert and Song 2005). Previous studies have suggested that the pattern of infraciliature, especially the ventral ciliary structure, is a critical species-specific character and is therefore reliable for species identification (Al-Rasheid 1997; Gong et al 2003).…”

Parabirojimia multinucleata spec. nov. and Anteholosticha scutellum (Cohn, 1866) Berger, 2003, marine ciliates (Ciliophora, Hypotrichida) from tropical waters in southern China, with notes on their small-subunit rRNA gene sequences

“…However, the former can be clearly separated from the latter by having two macronuclear nodules (vs 42-90 in A. scutellum) (Table 3) (Kahl, 1932). Wilbert & Song (2005) described Holosticha sp. from King George Island, Antarctica.…”

Characterization of two urostylid ciliates, Metaurostylopsis flavicana spec. nov. and Tunicothrix wilberti (Lin & Song, 2004) Xu et al., 2006 (Ciliophora, Stichotrichia), from a mangrove nature protection area in China

“…Subsequently, five more species have been described (Song et al, 2001;Lei et al, 2005;Wilbert & Song, 2005;Berger, 2006;Shao et al, 2008a, b).…”

“…Morphogenesis has been reported in varying levels of detail for M. marina, Metaurostylopsis rubra and Metaurostylopsis sinica (Song et al, 2001;Wilbert & Song, 2005;Shao et al, 2008a) and the phylogeny of M. rubra, Metaurostylopsis salina and Metaurostylopsis struederkypkeae was discussed by Yi et al (2008) based on small subunit (SSU) rRNA gene sequence data.…”