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Apocoriplites lajacola Oertel 2008

  • 1. Natural Science Research Institute, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea

Description

8. Apocoriplites lajacola Oertel et al., 2008 (Fig. 8)

Material examined. Terrestrial soil collected from Jibyeon-gil, Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do, Korea (N 37°46 ʹ 26 ʺ, E 128°52 ʹ 15 ʺ) on 26 February 2019.

Diagnosis. Size about 100 × 30 μm in vivo (n = 3). Body cylindroidal to elongate bursiform. Cytoplasm colorless. Extrusomes lacking. Contractile vacuole terminal. Minute cortical granules arranged in rows between ciliary rows. Two globular macronuclear nodules with a micronucleus in between. 10 - 12 ciliary rows, two anteriorly differentiated into isostichad dorsal brush occupying about 23% of body length and composed of widely spaced dikinetids.

Distribution. Venezuela and Korea.

Remarks. The genera Coriplites and Apocoriplites are characterized by the absence of the extrusomes (Foissner, 2016). Apocoriplites is a monotypic genus. Thus A. lajacola can be compared only with the species belong to the genus Coriplites, which are characterized by having three brush rows (Oertel et al., 2008).

Voucher slides. Two slides with protargol-impregnated specimens were deposited at the Nakdonggang National Institute of Biological Resources (NNIBRPR11660, NNI BRPR11661).

Family Spathidiidae Kahl in Doflein & Reichewnow, 1929

Genus Epispathidium Foissner, 1984

Notes

Published as part of Kim, Ji Hye & Jung, Atef Omar and Jae-Ho, 2020, Brief description of 18 newly recorded ciliate species from soil and inland waters (Protozoa, Ciliophora) in South Korea, pp. 251-268 in Journal of Species Research 9 (3) on pages 258-259, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2020.9.3.251, http://zenodo.org/record/13140071

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2019-02-26
Verbatim event date
2019-02-26
Scientific name authorship
Oertel
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ciliophora
Order
Haptorida
Family
Fuscheriidae
Genus
Apocoriplites
Species
lajacola
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Apocoriplites lajacola Oertel, 2008 sec. Kim & Jung, 2020

References

  • Oertel, A., K. Wolf, K. A. S. Al-Rasheid and W. Foissner. 2008. Revision of the genus Coriplites Foissner, 1988 (Ciliophora: Haptorida), with description of Apocoriplites nov. gen. and three new species. Acta Protozoologica 47: 231 - 246.
  • Foissner, W. 2016. Terrestrial and Semiterrestrial Ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Venezuela and Galapagos. Denisia 35: 1 - 912.
  • Foissner, W. 1984. Infraciliatur, Silberliniensystem und Biometrie einiger neuer und wenig bekannter terrestrischer, limnischer und mariner Ciliaten (Protozoa: Ciliophora) aus den Klassen Kinetofragminophora, Colpodea und Polyhymenophora. Stapfia 12: 1 - 165.