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Planilamina ovata Ma 2006

Description

PLANILAMINA OVATA MA ET AL., 2006

(FIGS 6, 7; TABLE 1)

Improved diagnosis: Cell size 35–80 × 30–50 μm in vivo; laterally flattened, discoid or ovate in side view; deep oral cavity composed of a pre-oral kinety (rarely two), two circumoral kineties and seven to 13 infundibular kineties; no nematodesmal rods; 38–58 right kineties, three to four left kineties; four kinetofragments located in the left ahead of the podite; macronucleus ovoid; one contractile vacuole adjacent to cytostome.

Notes

Published as part of Jin, Didi, Qu, Zhishuai, Wei, Bojue, Montagnes, David J. S., Fan, Xinpeng & Chen, Xiangrui, 2021, Two parasitic ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Phyllopharyngea) isolated from respiratory-mucus of an unhealthy beluga whale: characterization, phylogeny and an assessment of morphological adaptations, pp. 941-960 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191 on page 947

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ma
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ciliophora
Order
Dysteriida
Family
Kyaroikeidae
Genus
Planilamina
Species
ovata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Planilamina ovata Ma, 2006 sec. Jin, Qu, Wei, Montagnes, Fan & Chen, 2021