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Rhabdostyla tubificis Nenninger 1948

  • 1. ¹ Laboratório de Protozoologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Martelos, 36036 - 900, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Description

Rhabdostyla tubificis Nenninger 1948

— Fig. 4, P’

Diagnosis: Size about 60 µm. Vessel-like body, that gradually decreases towards the peduncle. Extremely short peduncle with adhesive disc. Clearly striated pellicle. Peristomial collar moderately thick. Peristomial disc slightly arcuate and bifurcated. Contractile vacuole lies below the peristomial collar. Broad, horseshoe-shaped macronucleus, positioned transversely in the middle of the body, rarely longitudinally. Found over annelids of genus Tubifex, only in the head region.

Remarks: diagnosis according to Nenninger (1948).

Notes

Published as part of Souza, Pedro Mendes De, Rossi, Mariana Fonseca & Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso, 2024, Systematic review of the genera Rhabdostyla Kent 1880 and Orborhabdostyla Foissner et al. 2010 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia, Epistylididae), pp. 201-230 in Zootaxa 5399 (3) on page 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10516774

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Epistylididae
Genus
Rhabdostyla
Kingdom
Chromista
Order
Peritrichida
Phylum
Ciliophora
Scientific name authorship
Nenninger
Species
tubificis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhabdostyla tubificis Nenninger, 1948 sec. Souza, Rossi & Dias, 2024

References

  • Nenninger, U. (1948) Die Peritrichen der Umgebung von Erlangen mit besonderer Berucksichtigung ihrer Wirtsspezifitat. Zoologische Jahrb ¸ cher. Abteilung f ¸ r Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 77, 169 - 266.