Redescription of a poorly known marine ciliate, Leptoamphisiella vermis Gruber, 1888 n. g., n. comb. (Ciliophora, Stichotrichia, Pseudoamphisiellidae), from the Yellow Sea, China

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 527-534

  Li, Liqiong ^a   Song, Weibo ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^b   Hu, Xiaozhong ^a   Al Quraishy, Saleh A ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Infraciliature; Morphology; New combination; New genus; Reorganization

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

CILIATE; COASTAL WATER; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; SILVER STAINING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CILIOPHORA; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; SEAWATER; SILVER STAINING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; QINGDAO; SHANDONG; YELLOW SEA;

CILIOPHORA; EPICLINTES; STICHOTRICHIA;

EID: 36849023509     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2007.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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