Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 3166 No. 1: 19 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3166.1.2
Page range: 34–40
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 1

Suctorian ciliates (Ciliophora, Suctorea) as epibionts of stream-dwelling aquatic beetles (Coleoptera) and water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) in the southwestern Palaearctic region

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, B. Khmelnitsky str., 15, 01601, Kiev, Ukraine
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Acari aquatic beetles water mites suctorian ciliates epibiont lotic ecosystems

Abstract

Based on original data from recent research, numerous new records of the suctorian species living as epibionts on stream-dwelling aquatic beetles (Coleoptera) and water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) in the southwestern Palaearctic area are giv-en. The following species are reported for the first time for the national faunas: Setodiscophrya deplanata (Matthes, 1954)(Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey), Discophrya helmidis Matthes, 1954 (Montenegro, Tur-key), Elatodiscophrya hochi (Matthes, 1954) (Bosnia and Hercegovina, Turkey), Periacineta buckei (Kent, 1881) (Mon-tenegro, Greece), Discophrya lichtensteinii (Claparede & Lachmann, 1859) (Turkey, Iran). The characteristics of the suctorians as epibionts of stream-dwelling arthropods are briefly outlined.

References

  1. Curds, C.R. (1985) A revision of Suctoria (Ciliophora, Kinetofragminofora) 1. Acineta and its morphological relatives. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 48 (2), 75–129.

    Bameul, F. (1991) Note on two phoretic Discophrya (Protozoa: Suctoria) found on Hydraena (Insecta: Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) in Spain and France. Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux, 19 (2), 97–102.

    Dovgal, I.V. (1993) Tentaculous infusoria (Ciliophora, Suctoria) of the East Carpathian mountains and surrounding areas. In: Proceedings of the East Carpathian fauna: its present state and prospects of preservation, Kiev, pp. 267–270.

    Dovgal, I.V. (1996) Keys for identification of tentaculous infusoria (Ciliophora, Suctoria) of the Ukrainian fauna. Vestnik zoologii, Supplement, 2, 1–42.

    Dovgal, I.V. (2002) Evolution, phylogeny and classification of Suctorea (Ciliophora). Protistology, 2 (4), 194–270.

    Dovgal, I.V. (2008) Micro-spatial structure of periphytonic communities: determinal factors. Natura Montenegrina, 7, 117–123.

    Dovgal, I.V. & Kochin, V.A. (1997) Fluid boundary layer as an adaptive zone for sessile protists. Journal obschej Biologii, 58 (2), 67–74.

    Dovgal, I.V., Zharikov, V.V. & Bykova, S.V. (2006) The systematic revision of the genus Setodiscophrya (Ciliophora, Suctorea). Vestnik zoologii, 40 (6), 497–504.

    Dovgal, I.V. & Pešić, V. (2007) Acineta persiensis sp.n. (Ciliophora, Suctorea) - a new freshwater suctorian species from the water mites of genus Protzia (Acari, Hydrachnidia). Vestnik zoologii, 41 (2), 165–167.

    Dovgal, I.V., Zawal, A. & Pešić, V. New finds of Tokophrya wenzeli (Ciliophora, Suctorea) the commensal of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) and redescription of the species. Vestnik zoologii (in press).

    Mariño-Pérez, R. & Mayén-Estrada, R. (2009) Epibiotic relationship between two species of suctorians (Protozoa: Suctoria) and Corisella edulis (Heteroptera: Corixidae). Aquatic Insects, 31 (3), 235–246.

    Mariño-Pérez, R., Dovgal, I. & Mayén-Estrada, R. (2011) New records of suctorians (Ciliophora: Suctoria) as epibionts of aquatic true bugs (Hemiptera: Prosorrhyncha, Nepomorpha) from two regions: Mexico and Eastern Europe. Zootaxa, 2798, 46–80.

    Matthes D. (1954a) Suktorienstudien I. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Discophrya Lachmann. Archiv für Protistenkunde, 99 (4), 187–226.

    Matthes, D. (1954b) Suktorienstudien III. Discophrya lichtensteinii (Claparede & Lachmann 1858) Collin 1912, ein an Halipliden und Dytisciden gebundenes Suktor. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 152 (9–10), 252–262.

    Matthes, D. (1954c) Suktorienstudien IV. Neue obligatorisch symphoriont mit Wasserkafern vergesellschaftete Discophrya-Arten. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 153 (3–4), 76-88.

    Matthes, D. (1954d) Suktorienstudien VII. Discophrya buckei (Kent), eine formenreiche Art der Linguifera-Gruppe. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 153 (9–10), 242–250.

    Matthes, D. & Plachter, H. (1975) Suctorien der Gattung Discophrya als Symphorionten von Helophorus und Ochthebius als Traeger symbiontischer Bakterien. Protistologica, 11 (1), 5–14.

    Matthes, D., Guhl, W. & Haider, G. (1988) Suctoria und Urceolariidae (Peritrichia). Protozoenfauna Band 7/1. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 309 pp.

    Nozawa, K. (1938) Some new freshwater Suctoria. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 17 (3), 247–259.

    Nutting, C. (1888) Description of supposed new species of Acinetan. American Naturalist, 22, 13–17.