Euplotes charon (Muller, 1773) Ehrenberg 1830
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Description
Euplotes charon (Müller, 1773) Ehrenberg, 1830
This species is considered to be marine (Borror 1968; Curds 1975), but was recorded also in brackish water (Dragesco & Dragesco-Kernéis 1986) and mouths of rivers (e.g., Kwon & Shin 2006). Thus, E. charon could be euryhaline. However, records from freshwaters were recognized as misidentifications of E. moebiusi (for review, see Foissner et al. 1991). As yet A. charon has been reported from Africa, America, Europe, and Asia (Dragesco & Dragesco-Kernéis 1986; Song & Warren 2009). There are only older data on occurrence of E. charon from the territory of Slovakia. Specifically, Hanuška (1962, 1971) reported it from the Nitra and Bebrava rivers and Madlen (1946) from forest soils in Central and Nothern Slovakia (localities were not closer specified). Only Madlen’s (1946) record is accompanied by a drawing that, however, does not enable to support correctenes of his identification. Since any record of E. charon from the territory of Slovakia cannot be reliably verified, we consider them as misidentifications of E. moebiusi.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Euplotidae
- Genus
- Euplotes
- Kingdom
- Protozoa
- Order
- Euplotida
- Phylum
- Ciliophora
- Scientific name authorship
- (Muller, 1773) Ehrenberg
- Species
- charon
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Euplotes charon (Muller, 1830 sec. Tirjaková, Botlíková & Vďačný, 2015
References
- Muller, O. F. (1773) Vermium Terrestrium et Fluviatilium, seu Animalium Infusoriorum, Helminthicorum et Testaceorum, non Marinorum, Succincta Historia. Heineck & Faber, Havniae & Lipsiae, 135 pp.
- Borror, A. C. (1968) Systematics of Euplotes (Ciliophora, Hypotrichida); toward union of the old and the new. Journal of Protozoology, 15, 802 - 808. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1550 - 7408.1968. tb 02218. x
- Curds, C. R. (1975) A guide to the species of the genus Euplotes (Hypotrichida, Ciliatea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 28, 1 - 61.
- Dragesco, J. & Dragesco-Kerneis, A. (1986) Cilies libres de l'Afrique intertropicale. Faune Tropicale, 36, 1 - 559.
- Kwon, C. B. & Shin, M. K. (2006) Redescription of previously unknown euplotine ciliates, Euplotes charon and Diophrys oligothrix (Ciliophora: Spirotrichea: Euplotida) from Korea. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, 22, 29 - 35.
- Song, W. & Warren, A. (2009) Protohypotrichs, discocephalids and euplotids. In: Song, W., Warren, A. & Hu, X. (Eds.), Freeliving Ciliates in the Bohai and Yellow Seas, China. Science Press, Beijing, pp. 415 - 459.
- Hanuska, L. (1962) Protozoa des Nitra-Flussgebietes (Saprobial-okologische Studie). Biologia, Bratislava, 17, 812 - 826.
- Hanuska, L. (1971) Hydrobiologia rieky Nitry po popolcekovej havarii [Gidrobiologia reki Nitry posle zol'noj avarii].
- Madlen, J. (1946) Vyznam a rozsirenie prvokov v lesnych podach [Importance and distribution of protists in forest soils]. Sbornik prac vyskumnych ustavov lesnickych v Banskej Stiavnici, year 1946, 1 - 51. [in Slovak]