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Platina Jiang & Wang & Liao & Al-Farraj & Warren & Hu 2024
Authors/Creators
- 1. College of Fisheries & Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China & Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
- 2. Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
- 3. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Description
Genus Platina gen. nov.
Zoobank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 1601373F-0BB8-4316-9A76-A10BF15BB6BD
Diagnosis: Body flattened dorsoventrally; caudal cilium and glabrous area present; ectoplasmic alveolar layer conspicuous; somatic kineties generally forming transverse rows; perioral kineties composed of several transverse rings; circumoral kinety incomplete.
Etymology: The genus name Platina (platy -) refers to the flat body, a main distinguishing feature of this genus. Feminine gender.
Type species: Platina marina gen. nov., sp. nov.
Notes
Published as part of Jiang, Limin, Wang, Congcong, Liao, Lijian, Al-Farraj, Saleh A., Warren, Alan & Hu, Xiaozhong, 2024, Re-evaluation of the systematic position of the order Prostomatida (Protista: Ciliophora), with the establishment of two new genera and two new species, pp. 849-864 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (4) on page 851, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad116, http://zenodo.org/record/11241025
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Jiang & Wang & Liao & Al-Farraj & Warren & Hu
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Phylum
- Ciliophora
- Order
- Prostomatida
- Family
- Apsiktratidae
- Genus
- Platina
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platina Jiang, 2024 sec. Jiang, Wang, Liao, Al-Farraj, Warren & Hu, 2024