The apertospathulidae, a new family of haptorid ciliates (protozoa, ciliophora)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 360-373

  Foissner, Wilhelm ^a   Xu, Kuidong ^a,b   Kreutz, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c Private Laboratory   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bryophyllum; Legendrea; Longispatha dioplites (Foissner, Agatha, and Berger, 2002) n. comb.; Perispira; Rhinothrix antennata (Kahl, 1926) n. comb.; Rhinothrix barbatula (Penard, 1922) n. comb.; Soil protozoa; Spathidium; Sphagnum protozoa; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; ETHANOL; FIXATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

BRYOPHYLLUM; CILIOPHORA; HAPTORIDA; PROTOZOA; SPATHIDIIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOIL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; ECOSYSTEM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; SOIL; VENEZUELA;

EID: 27244460666     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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