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Issue: Vol. 4483 No. 3: 24 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.3.10
Page range: 591–599
Abstract views: 94
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Morphology and phylogeny of a new species, Uroleptus (Caudiholosticha) antarctica n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) from Greenwich Island in Antarctica

Division of Polar Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon 21990, South Korea Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 22212, South Korea Department of Biological Resources Research, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 22689, South Korea
Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 22212, South Korea
Division of Polar Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon 21990, South Korea Division of Polar Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon 21990, South Korea.
Protist ciliate moss SSU rRNA taxonomy Uroleptidae

Abstract

This paper describes the morphological features based on standard methods and estimates their phylogenetic position using small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) sequences of a Uroleptus (Caudiholosticha) antarctica n. sp. population investigated from moss of the Greenwich Island, Antarctica. The morphology of Uroleptus (Caudiholosticha) antarctica n. sp. is characterized as follows: 213.0–238.0×67.5–74.5 μm size in vivo; contractile vacuole located slightly above left of mid-body; cortical granules lacking; three frontal and two frontoterminal cirri; five to six transverse cirri; one pretransverse cirri; one right and one left marginal rows; six to seven dorsal kineties; three caudal cirri.

 

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