Redescriptions of two poorly known marine suctorian ciliates, Ephelota truncata Fraipont, 1878 and Ephelota mammillata dons, 1918 (protozoa, ciliophora, suctoria), from Qingdao, China

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-256

  Chen, Xiangrui ^c   Miao, Miao ^c   Song, Weibo ^c   Warren, Alan ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^b   Al Farraj, Saleh A ^b   Al Quraishy, Saleh A ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Morphology; Reproduction; SSU rRNA; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; EPHELOTA; PROTOZOA; SUCTORIA;

EID: 67650076868     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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