Description of a new marine cyrtophorid ciliate, Brooklynella sinensis n. sp. from the China Sea with a new definition of the genus Brooklynella (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1113, 2006, Pages 41-49

  Gong, Jun ^a,b   Song, Weibo ^a,b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brooklynella sinensis; Ciliophora; Infraciliature; Morphology; New species

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; CYRTOPHORIDA; DYSTERIIDA; DYSTERIIDAE; EUKARYOTA; HARTMANNULIDAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33646819532     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1113.1.4     Document Type: Article

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