Published May 7, 2014 | Version v1
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Paracineta livadiana

  • 1. Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, 2, Nakhimov av., 299011, Sevastopol, Russia. E-mail: nserg 05 @ mail. ru
  • 2. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 15, B. Khmelnitsky str., 01601, Kiev, Ukraine. E-mail: dovgal @ izan. kiev. ua

Description

Paracineta livadiana (Mereschkowsky, 1881)

(Fig. 3)

Diagnosis. Loricate suctorian ciliate. Lorica of stylotheca-type covering the whole of body, the stylotheca mouth slightly dips into lorica. The tentacles are capitate, arranged in apical bundle. The stalk-like stylotheca protuberance long, thin, and does not extend up to bottom of the lorica. Macronucleus ellipsoidal, central. There is one laterally positioned contractile vacuole. Marine species, attached to different substrates.

Measurements (in µm): lorica height 115, width 50; body height 50 (26-63 after Dovgal 2013), width 50 (20-40 after Dovgal 2013); length of the tentacles 40-50; macronucleus dimensions 11×7 (15-20×20-25 after Dovgal 2013).

Notes

Published as part of Sergeeva, Nelli & Dovgal, Igor, 2014, First finding of epibiont peritrich and suctorian ciliates (Ciliophora) on oligochaetes and harpacticoid copepods from the deep-water hypoxic / anoxic conditions of the Black Sea, pp. 49-54 in Ecologica Montenegrina 1 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.37828/em.2014.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/10662222

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Mereschkowsky
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ciliophora
Order
Suctorida
Family
Acinetidae
Genus
Paracineta
Species
livadiana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Paracineta livadiana (Mereschkowsky, 1881) sec. Sergeeva & Dovgal, 2014

References

  • Dovgal, I. V. (2013) Fauna of Ukraine: in 40 vol. Vol. 36: Ciliates - Ciliophora. Issue 1: Class Suctorea, Naukova dumka, Kiev, 267 pp.