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Zosterodasys

Description

Key to Zosterodasys species

(Figs 2 and 3)

1 In marine or brackish environments (e.g., sea, estuaries or sea ice)............................................. 2

- In freshwater environments (e.g., puddles, benthos and periphyton of ponds or rivers)............................. 8 2 Posterior body end tail-like.................................................................... Z. caudatus - Posterior end tapering, narrowly or broadly rounded........................................................ 3 3 Three contractile vacuoles arranged in a row near right body margin..................................... Z. acutus - Other contractile vacuole pattern....................................................................... 4 4 Usually 3 conspicuously large micronuclei (4–10 µm across); synhymenium completely encircles body; ventral kineties form a

Notes

Published as part of Vďačný, Peter & Tirjaková, Eva, 2012, Taxonomic revision of the ciliate genus Zosterodasys Deroux, 1978 (Protista: Ciliophora: Synhymeniida), pp. 34-58 in Zootaxa 3345 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.281497

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Biodiversity

Family
Orthodonellidae
Genus
Zosterodasys
Kingdom
Protozoa
Order
Synhymeniida
Phylum
Ciliophora
Taxon rank
genus