Three marine haptorid ciliates from northern China: Paraspathidium apofuscum n. sp., Trachelotractus entzi (Kahl, 1927) Foissner, 1997 and Apotrachelotractus variabialis Long, Song and Warren, 2009 (Protozoa, Ciliophora)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 43, Issue 29-30, 2009, Pages 1749-1761

  Long, Hongan ^a   Song, Weibo ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A ^b   Gong, Jun ^c  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Benthos; Haptorida; Morphology and infraciliature; New species; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PROTOZOAN; SANDY SOIL; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGDAO; SHANDONG;

CILIOPHORA; HAPTORIDA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 70449629409     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930902781038     Document Type: Article

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