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Rhabdostyla Kent 1881

  • 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

Genus: Rhabdostyla Kent, 1881

Opisthostyla Stokes, 1886 b: 565.

[Rhabdostyla] (Rhabdostyla) Kent, 1881 — Kahl, 1935: 673

[Rhabdostyla] (Opisthostyla) Stokes, 1886 b— Kahl, 1935: 679

Epistylis (Rhabdostyla) Kent, 1881 — Stiller, 1971: 64

Diagnosis: Solitary, with a short, non-contractile peduncle, with a generally bell-shaped body and a well-defined peristomial collar.

Type specie: Epistylis spheroides (Subsequent designation Jankwoski, 2009)

Remarks: initially described by Kent in (1881) as solitary “animalcules”, similar to those of the genus Vorticella, but with non-contractile peduncle. In a recent taxonomic study, Álvarez-Campos et al. (2014) defines the genus as solitary peritrich ciliates with short non-contractile peduncles, with a mainly bell-shaped body and a well-defined peristomial lip. Here we suggest Opisthostyla annulate as type species of Opisthostyla, this species was in the original genus description, have a decent diagnosis and attached graphic representation.

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 211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10516774

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kent
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ciliophora
Order
Peritrichida
Family
Epistylididae
Genus
Rhabdostyla
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Rhabdostyla Kent, 1881 sec. Souza, Rossi & Dias, 2024

References

  • Kent, W. S. (1881) A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate, Ciliate, and Tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and Foreign, and an Account of the Organization and the Affinities of the Sponges. Vol. 1. D. Bogue, London, x + 472 pp.
  • Stokes, A. C. (1886) Notices of New Fresh-Water Infusoria. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 23, 562 - 568.
  • Kahl, A. (1935) Peritrichia und Chonotricha. Untiere Order Protozoa, 1935, 651 - 885.
  • Stiller, J. (1971) n. k. In: Szajkoszorus csillosok-peritricha. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, pp. 23 - 73
  • Alvarez-Campos, P., Fernandez-Leborans, G., Verdes, A., San Martin, G., Martin, D. & Riesgo, A. (2014) The tag-along friendship: Epibiotic protozoans and syllid polychaetes. Implications for the taxonomy of Syllidae (Annelida), and description of three new species of Rhabdostyla and Cothurnia (Ciliophora, Peritrichia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 172, 265 - 281. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zoj. 12168