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Discophrya Lachmann 1859

Creators

  • 1. Dep. Zoology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University, c / José Antonio Novais, 12. 28040 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: greg @ bio. ucm. es
  • 2. Dep. Biodiversity & Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural History (MNCN-CSIC), c / José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: marval @ mncn. csic. es
  • 3. Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA-CSIC), c / Serrano 115, dpdo., 28006 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: mercedes. arauzo @ csic. es
  • 4. Dep. Ecology & Hydrology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Espinardo Campus, 30100 Murcia, Spain. E-mail: acmillan @ um. es
  • 5. Laboratory of Histology and Procedures for Biological Samples, National Museum of Natural History (CSIC), c / José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: mgallardo @ mncn. csic. es
  • 6. Association of Environmental Sciences (ACA). c / General Ramírez de Madrid, 11, 4 º-dcha, 28020 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: luis. jimenez @ cienciasambientales. org. es
  • 7. Laboratory of Protozoology, Dep. Comparative Biology, Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico. E-mail: mballesteros @ ciencias. unam. mx

Description

Genus Discophrya Lachmann, 1859

Freshwater suctorians. Evaginative swarmer is dorsoventrally flattened and ciliated on the ventral side. Cup-shaped species without lorica, and when they have lorica, it is a extension of the stalk. Cellular body flattenned. Stalk is strong especially in symphoriont species, with a proximal widening. Contractile vacuole easily distinguishable. (Matthes 1988; Lynn & Small 2000).

Notes

Published as part of Fernández-Leborans, Gregorio, Valladolid, María, Arauzo, Mercedes, Millán, Andrés, Gabilondo, Regina, Gallardo, Manuela, Jiménez, Luis & Ramírez-Ballesteros, Mireya, 2017, Epibionts on Hydraena species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from high mountain rivers of Pyrenees (Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park), with the description of a new species, pp. 79-94 in Zootaxa 4317 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/880068

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/984DEA0AFFE92E0EFF0F06A0FDAEDD42

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.1.3 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/880068 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/64749272FFEF2E08FF980637FF99DC26 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/84194D60-A26C-4F86-Afb1-B50C0A0B37Bd (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/984DEA0AFFE92E0EFF0F06A0FDAEDD42 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/133135003 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/32236/taxon/984DEA0AFFE92E0EFF0F06A0FDAEDD42.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Discophryidae
Genus
Discophrya
Kingdom
Protozoa
Order
Astomatida
Phylum
Ciliophora
Scientific name authorship
Lachmann
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Discophrya Lachmann, 1859 sec. Fernández-Leborans, Valladolid, Arauzo, Millán, Gabilondo, Gallardo, Jiménez & Ramírez-Ballesteros, 2017

References

  • Matthes, D. (1988) Suctoria. In: Matthes, D., Guhl, W. & Haider, G. (Eds.), Suctoria und Urceolariidae (Peritricha). Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 1 - 226.
  • Lynn, D. H. & Small, E. B. (2000) Phylum Ciliophora. In: Lee, J. J., Leedale, G. F. & Bradbury, P. (Eds.), An Illustrated Guide to Protozoa. Allen Press, Kansas, pp. 371 - 656.