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Askoella Fenchel 1965

Description

Genus Askoella Fenchel, 1965

Fenchel (1965) described new ciliate genus Askoella Fenchel, 1965 with the type species A. janssonі Fenchel, 1965 (Fig. 2 A–C) from the amphipod crustacean Gammarus oceanicus Segerstråle, 1947 (type host). This ciliate was found on 50% of Gammarus individuals collected near Asko (Denmark, type locality). In addition A. janssonі has been observed on a specimen of G. locusta (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Oresund strait.

The cell body of A. janssoni is ovoid and flattened. The left rim is more convex than the right one. The ventral side is slightly concave while the dorsal side is convex. There are two kineties on the dorsal side of the body and three kineties on the ventral side. The cytostome is provided by a vestibulum and situated on the anterior third of the ventral body side, to the right of the middle. The macronucleus is large and U-shaped. There is a contractile vacuole situated in the posterior end of body.

Jankowski (1967b) described a second species of the genus, A. heliostoma Jankowski, 1967 (Fig. 2 D) from acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides (Linnaeus, 1767) collected in the Barents Sea near Murmansk, Russia (type locality).

Askoella heliostoma has an oval, small, light coloured body filled with food vacuoles. The apical region of the cell body is tapered, whereas the antapical is provided by a characteristic groove which leads to a long convoluted canal terminating near rosette. The rosette septa are not arranged parallely one to another like in A. janssoni, but there are radially arranged as in the rosette trophonts of Gymnodinioides. Jankowski (1967b) considered this distinctive character to distinguish A. heliostoma from A. janssoni, and Jankowski (1967b, 1972) included some observations of A. helіostoma nutritions and reproductions.

Notes

Published as part of Dovgal, Igor & Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura, 2015, A taxonomic revision of order Pilisuctorida (Ciliophora, Apostomatia) with keys to the subordinate taxa, pp. 543-558 in Zootaxa 4040 (5) on page 547, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/238595

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Conidophryidae
Genus
Askoella
Kingdom
Protozoa
Order
Apostomatida
Phylum
Ciliophora
Scientific name authorship
Fenchel
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Askoella Fenchel, 1965 sec. Dovgal & Mayén-Estrada, 2015

References

  • Fenchel, T. (1965) On the ciliate fauna associated with the marine species of the amphipod genus Gammarus J. G. Fabricius. Ophelia, 2, 281 - 303. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00785326.1965.10409605
  • Jankowski, A. V. (1967 b) Ciliates from the mantle cavity of Balanus in Barents sea. Parasitologia. 1 (1), 82 - 93. [in Russian]
  • Jankowski, A. V. (1972) Recapitulation of phylogenesis in ciliate ontogeny. In: Vorontsov, N. N. (Ed.), Problems of evolution. Vol. II. Nauka, Novosibirsk, pp. 95 - 123. [in Russian]