Bodo designis Skuja 1948
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Bodo designis Skuja, 1948
(fi gures 1h, 2m)
Description. Cell outline usually elliptical, 4-7 Mm long, 2-4 Mm wide. With two unequal fl agella emerging from a subapical pocket. Cells are fl exible. The anterior fl agellum is about the length of the cell or slightly shorter and curves back over the rostrum. The anterior fl agellum wraps around the anterior part of the cell and the mouth is pressed against food particles when the cell is feeding. The acronematic posterior fl agellum is about 2-4 times the length of the cell and has a sinuous pro fi le in swimming cells. Cells rotate around their longitudinal axes when swimming. The nucleus is located near the middle of the cell. Common.
Remarks. Cell length was previously reported to be from 7 to 15 Mm. This species has been reported from marine sites in Antarctica, North Atlantic, subtropical and tropical Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Fiji, Gulf of Finland, Greenland, Hawaii, and Panama (Larsen and Patterson, 1990; Vørs, 1992a, 1992b, 1993a; Patterson et al., 1993; Ekebom et al., 1996; Patterson and Simpson, 1996; Tong, 1997a; Tong et al., 1997, 1998). Generally, our observations are consistent with those of previous authors. Bodo designis has also been found in several freshwater sites. It appears to be cosmopolitan. Sometimes, this species occurs in large numbers. It has been characterized by the rotating behaviour of swimming cells, but B. cygnus reported by Patterson and Simpson (1996) and B. platyrhynchu s also have a rotating swimming movement. Bodo designis sometimes co-occurs with B. cygnus, but B. cygnus can be distinguished because it has a spiral groove.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Bodonidae
- Genus
- Bodo
- Kingdom
- Protozoa
- Order
- Bodonida
- Phylum
- Euglenozoa
- Scientific name authorship
- Skuja
- Species
- designis
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bodo designis Skuja, 1948 sec. Lee & Patterson, 2000
References
- SKUJA, H., 1948, Taxonomie des Phytoplanktons einiger Seen in Uppland, Schweden, Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses, 9, 5 ± 399.
- LARSEN, J. and PATTERSON, D. J., 1990, Some ¯ agellates (Protista) from tropical marine sediments, Journal of Natural History, 24, 801 ± 937.
- PATTERSON, D. J., NYGAARD, K., STEINBERG, G. and TURLEY, C., 1993, Heterotrophic ¯ agellates and other protists associated with oceanic detritus throughout the water column in the mid North Atlantic, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 73, 67 ± 95.
- EKEBOM, J., PATTERSON, D. J. and VORS, N., 1996, Heterotrophic ¯ agellates from coral reef sediments (Great Barrier Reef, Australia), Archiv fuEr Protistenkunde, 146, 251 ± 272.
- PATTERSON, D. J. and SIMPSON, A. G. B., 1996, Heterotrophic ¯ agellates from coastal marine and hypersaline sediments in Western Australia, European Journal of Protistology, 32, 423 ± 448.
- TONG, S. M., 1997 a, Heterotrophic ¯ agellates from the water column in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Marine Biology, 128, 517 ± 536.
- TONG, S. M., VORS, N. and PATTERSON, D. J., 1997, Heterotrophic ¯ agellates, centrohelid heliozoa and ® lose amoebae from marine and freshwater sites in the Antarctic, Polar Biology, 18, 91 ± 106.
- TONG, S. M., NYGAARD, K., BERNARD, C., VORS, N. and PATTERSON, D. J., 1998, Heterotrophic ¯ agellates from the water column in Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia, European Journal of Protistology, 34, 162 ± 194.