Morphogenesis and morphological redescription of a poorly known ciliate apokeronopsis ovalis (kahl, 1932) nov. comb. (ciliophora: Urostylida)

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-376

  Shao, Chen ^a   Miao, Miao ^a   Liqiong, L P ^a   Song, Weibo ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A ^b   Al Quraishy, Saleh A ^b   Al Farraj, Saleh A ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Marine ciliate; Morphospecies; Ontogenesis; Pseudokeronopsidae; Spirotricha

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; HOLOSTICHA; KERONOPSIS; PSEUDOKERONOPSIDAE; SPIROTRICHEA;

EID: 67650091151     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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