Rhynchomonas nasuta Klebs 1893
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Description
Rhynchomonas nasuta Klebs 1893 (Figs 2i, 3n)
Cells are 3.5–6 μm long, flattened and flexible. The cells are with a bulbous motile snout which beats slowly. The mouth is located on the bulbous motile snout. The anterior flagellum lies alongside the snout and is hard to see, and the acronematic, trailing posterior flagellum is 2–3 times the cell length. The cells move by gliding. Description based on observations of 45 cells. Occurance: every month at Acı Lake, temperature 1–23.5 °C, salinity 24–67.5 psu, dissolved oxygen 3.75–13.2 mg /L.
Remarks: This is a well-known species with a bulbous snout. This species has been reported from diverse environments worldwide (e.g., Lee and Patterson 1998, 2000; Lee 2015), including hypersaline habitats in Australia (Post et al. 1983, Patterson and Simpson 1996).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Klebs
- Kingdom
- Protozoa
- Phylum
- Euglenozoa
- Order
- Bodonida
- Family
- Rhynchomonadidae
- Genus
- Rhynchomonas
- Species
- nasuta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhynchomonas nasuta Klebs, 1893 sec. Aydin & Lee, 2022
References
- Lee W. J., Patterson D. J. (1998) Diversity and geographic distribution of free-living heterotrophic flagellates - analysis by Primer. Protist. 149: 229 - 244.
- Lee W. J. (2015) Small free-living heterotrophic flagellates from marine sediments of Gippsland Basin, South-Eastern Australia. Acta Protozool. 54: 53 - 76.
- Post F. J., Borowitzka L. J., Borowitzka M. A., Mackay B., Moulton T. (1983) The Protozoa of a Western Australian hypersaline lagoon. Hydrobiologia 105: 95 - 113.
- Patterson D. J., Simpson A. G. (1996) Heterotrophic flagellates from coastal marine and hypersaline sediments in Western Australia. Eur. J. Protistol. 32: 423 - 448.