New Entodiniomorphid Ciliates, Buetschlia minuta n. sp., B. cirrata n. sp.,<br />Charonina elephanti n. sp., from Asian Elephants of Turkey

Abstract

Three new entodiniomorphid species, Buetschlia minuta n. sp., Buetschlia cirrata n. sp., and Charonina elephanti n. sp., were described from the hindgut of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) from Gaziantep, Turkey. B. minuta n. sp. has an ovoid body shape with a truncated anterior end and a rounded posterior end, an adoral ciliary zone surrounding the cytostome, somatic ciliary rows in the anterior two thirds of the body, an ovoid macronucleus without a constant position, and a concretion vacuole in the anterior one third of the body. B. cirrata n. sp. has an ovoid body shape with the anterior end truncated and the posterior end rounded, an adoral ciliary zone surrounding the cytostome, unevenly distributed somatic cilia, an ovoid macronucleus without a constant position, and a concretion vacuole in the anterior one third of the body. C. elephanti n. sp. has an ovoid body shape with both ends rounded, an ovoid macronucleus without a constant position, two buccal ciliary zones, an adoral ciliary zone, a vestibular ciliary zone, three somatic ciliary zones, a dorsal ciliary zone, two posterior ciliary zones, dorsal and ventral, and a vestibulum with a Y-shaped infraciliature.

Ruminal ciliate diversity of domestic cattle in Antalya, Turkey, with special emphasis on morphology of Entodinium rostratum (Entodiniomorphida, Ophryoscolecidae)

“…were not observed in other Entodinium species as well as in other ophryoscolecid ciliates (Noirot-Timothée, 1960;Ito et al, 1997Ito et al, , 2001Ito and Imai, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2006Mishima et al, 2009;Gürelli and Akman, 2017;Gürelli, 2018;Ito and Tokiwa, 2018;Cedrola et al, 2018). Transverse, short, and parallel dorsal vestibular fibrils were detected in the hindgut ciliate species Charonina elephanti, which was classified in the family Blepharocorythidae, suborder Blepharocorythina (Gürelli, 2019). Transverse, short, and parallel vestibular fibrils with different locations also exist in Charonina ventricula, which is living in the rumen of ruminants (Wolska, 1967).…”

Advances In The Understanding of The Commensal Eukaryota And Viruses Of The Herbivore Gut

“…This period was also characterized by the establishment of new silver impregnation techniques for trichostomatid ciliates, such as the adaptations of ammoniacal silver carbonate impregnation proposed by Ito and Imai (1998) and Rossi et al (2016) and the adaption of Protargol's impregnation for vestibuliferids proposed by Ito and Imai (2000). These techniques allowed the development of several studies describing the infraciliature and morphogenetic process in different trichostomatid species (Ito et al, 1997(Ito et al, , 2001(Ito et al, , 2002(Ito et al, , 2008(Ito et al, , 2010(Ito et al, , 2011(Ito et al, , 2014(Ito et al, , 2017Ito and Imai, 1998, 2003Gürelli and Ito, 2014;Cedrola et al, 2016, Cedrola et al, 2017a,b, 2018aGürelli and Akman, 2016;Gürelli, 2018Gürelli, , 2019, which were very important to understand the evolutionary relationships within the Trichostomatia.…”

Trichostomatid Ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Trichostomatia) Systematics and Diversity: Past, Present, and Future

“…This period was also characterized by the establishment of new silver impregnation techniques for trichostomatid ciliates, such as the adaptations of ammoniacal silver carbonate impregnation proposed by Ito and Imai (1998) and Rossi et al (2016) and the adaption of Protargol's impregnation for vestibuliferids proposed by Ito and Imai (2000). These techniques allowed the development of several studies describing the infraciliature and morphogenetic process in different trichostomatid species (Ito et al, 1997(Ito et al, , 2001(Ito et al, , 2002(Ito et al, , 2008(Ito et al, , 2010(Ito et al, , 2011(Ito et al, , 2014(Ito et al, , 2017Ito and Imai, 1998, 2005Gürelli and Ito, 2014;Cedrola et al, 2016, Cedrola et al, 2017a,b, 2018aGürelli and Akman, 2016;Gürelli, 2018Gürelli, , 2019, which were very important to understand the evolutionary relationships within the Trichostomatia.…”