New contribution to the morphological taxonomy of three marine cyrtophorid ciliates from the Yellow Sea, China (Ciliophora: Cyrtophorida)

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 105-119

  Chen, Xiangrui ^a   Gong, Jun ^b,c   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^d   Farraj, Saleh A ^d   Song, Weibo ^e  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Cyrtophorida; Dysteriidae; Hartmannulidae; Lynchellidae; New genus; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; CYRTOPHORIDA; DYSTERIA; DYSTERIIDAE; HARTMANNULIDAE; LANCEOLATA; LYNCHELLA; LYNCHELLIDAE;

EID: 80053074226     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Agamaliev F. G. (1978) Morphology of some free-living ciliates of the Caspian Sea. Acta Protozool. 17: 419-444
2. Agatha S., Spindler M., Wilbert N. (1993) Ciliated protozoa (Ciliophora) from Arctic sea ice. Acta Protozool. 32: 261-268
3. Alekperov I. K., Asadullayeva E. S. (1997) New and little-known ciliates (orders Nassulida-Oligotrichida) from the Caspian Sea Apsheronian coast. Communication 2. Zool. Zh. 76: 1411-1417 (in Russian)
4. Aliev A. R. (1987) New species of infusoria (Cyrtophorida, Chlamydodontidae) from hyperhaline water reservoirs of the Apsheron Peninsula. Zool. Zh. 66: 1736-1738 (in Russian)
5. Aliev A. R. (1991) New infusorian species from the genus Cyrtophoron (Ciliata, Hypostomata) from hyperhaline and mineralized water bodies of Azerbaijan. Zool. Zh. 70: 126-130 (in Russian)
6. Blatterer H., Foissner W. (1990) Beiträge zur Ciliatenfauna (Protozoa: Ciliophora) der Amper (Bayern, Bundesrepublik Deutschland). Arch. Protistenkd. 138: 93-115
7. Borror A. C. (1972) Tidal marsh ciliates (Protozoa): morphology, ecology, systematics. Acta Protozool. 31: 29-71
8. Chen X., Song W., Warren A., Al-Rasheid K. A. S., Al-Farraj S. A., Al-Quraishy S. A., Gong J. (2008b) Redefinition of two marine suctorian ciliates, Ephelota gemmipara (Hertwig, 1876) Bütschli, 1889 and E. crustaceorum Haller, 1880 (Ciliophora, Suctoria), with a brief description of the asexual reproduction process in E. gemmipara. Acta Protozool. 47: 113-124
9. Chen X., Wang Y., Long H., Al-Rasheid K. A. S., Warren A., Song W. (2010) Morphological studies on two marine colepid ciliates from Qingdao, China, Nolandia orientalis spec. nov. and Pinacocoleps similis (Kahl, 1933) comb. nov. (Ciliophora, Colepidae). Eur. J. Protistol. 46: 254-262
10. Chen X., Warren A., Song W. (2009) Taxonomic studies on a new marine ciliate, Apocopleps magnus gne. nov., spec. nov. (Ciliophora, Colepidae), isolated from Qingdao, China. J. Ocean. Univ. China. 8: 317-321
11. Claparède E., Lachmann J. (1859) Études sur les infusoires et les rhizopodes. Mém. Inst. natn. Genèv. 5: 1-260
12. Corliss J. O. (1979) The ciliated protoza. Characterization, classification and guide to the literature. 2nd ed. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
13. Deroux G. (1965) Origine des cinéties antérieures, gauches et buccales dans le genre Dysteria Huxley. Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris 260: 6689-6691
14. Deroux G. (1970) La série «Chlamydonellienne» chez les Chlamydodontidae (Holotriches, Cyrtophrdina Fauré-Fremiet). Protistologica 6: 155-182
15. Deroux G. (1975) Les dispositifs adhesives ciliaires chez les Cyrtophorida et la famile des Hypocomidae. Protistologica 10: 379-396
16. Deroux G. (1976a) Le plan cortical des Cyrtophorida unité d'expression et marges de variabilité. I. Le cas des plesiotrichopidae, Fam. Now., dans la nouvelle systématique. Protistologica 12: 469-481
17. Deroux G. (1976b) Le plan cortical des Cyrtophorida unité d'expression et marges de variabilité. II. Cyrtophorida a thigmotactisme ventral generalize. Protistologica 12: 483-500
18. Deroux G. (1976c) Plan cortical des Cyrtophorida III. Les structures différenciatrices chez les Dysterina. Protistologica 12: 505-538
19. Deroux G. (1994) Sous-Classe des Cyrtophorida Fauré-Fremiet in Corliss, 1956. Traité Zool. 2: 401-431
20. Dragesco J. (1966) Observations sur quelques ciliés libres. Arch. Protistenkd. 109: 155-206
21. Dragesco J., Dragesco-Kernéis A. (1986) Ciliés libres de l'Afrique intertropicale. Faune Tropicale 26: 1-559
22. Fauré-Fremiet E. (1965) Morphologie des Dysteriidae (Ciliata Cyrtophorina). Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris 260: 6679-6684
23. Foissner W. (1984) Morphologie und Infraciliature einiger limnischer Ciliaten (Protozoa: Ciliophora). Schweiz. Z. Hydrol. 46: 210-223
24. Foissner W., Blatterer H., Berger H., Kohmann F. (1991) Taxonomische und ökologische Revision der Ciliaten des Saprobiensystems Band I: Cyrtophorida, Oligotrchida, Hypotricha, Colpodea. Informat Bayer Land. Wasserwirt 1/91: 1-478
25. Foissner W., Czapic, A., Wiackowski K. (1981) Die Infraciliatur und das Silberliniensystem von Sagittaria hyalina nov. spec., Chlamydonella polonica nov. spec. und Spirozona caudata Kahl, 1926 (Protozoa, Ciliophora). Arch. Protistenkd. 124: 361-377
26. Gao S., Strüder-Kypke M. S., Al-Rasheid K. A. S., Lin X., Song W. (2010) Molecular phylogeny of three ambiguous ciliate genera: Kentrophoros, Trachelolophos and Trachelotractus (Alveolata, Ciliophora). Zool. Scr. 39: 305-313
27. Gong J., Lin X., Song W. (2003) Redescription of a poorly-known marine cyrtophorid ciliate, Dysteria pusilla (Claparède and Lachmann, 1859) (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Cyrtophorida) from Qingdao, China. Acta Protozool. 42: 215-221
28. Gong J., Song W. (2004) Morphology and infraciliature of two marine species of Hartmannula (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida), from scallop farming waters off Qingdao (Tsingtao), China. J. Nat. Hist. 38: 1327-1337
29. Gong J., Song W. (2006) Redescriptions of three cyrtophorid ciliates from marine biofilm, with establishment of a new genus, Wilbertella nov. gen. (Ciliophora: Crytophorida: Lynchellidae). Acta Protozool. 45: 153-165
30. Gong J., Song W., Warren A. (2002) Redescriptions of two marine cyrtophorid ciliates, Dysteria cristata (Gourret and Roeser,1888) and Dysteria monostyla (Ehrenberg, 1838) Kahl, 1931 (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida), from China. Europ. J. Protistol. 38: 213-222
31. Gong J., Song W., Warren A. (2005a) Periphytic ciliate colonization: annual cycle and responses to environmental conditions. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 39: 159-170
32. Gong J., Song W., Warren A. (2005b) Updating the ciliate genus Chlamydodon Ehrenberg, 1835, with redescriptions of three species (Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida). Acta Protozool. 44: 19-32
33. Gong J., Song W., Warren A. (2009a) CYRTOPHORIDS. In: Freeliving Ciliates in the Bohai and Yellow Seas, China, (Eds. W. Song, A. Warren, X. Hu). Science Press, Beijing, 49-93
34. Gong J., Song W., Warren A., Lin X., Roberts D. M. (2007) Microscopical observations on four marine Dysteria species (Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida). Eur. J. Protistol. 43: 147-161
35. Gong J., Stoeck T., Yi Z., Miao M., Zhang Q., Roberts D., Warren A., Song W. (2009b) Small subunit rRNA phylogenies show that the class Nassophorea is not monophyletic (Phylum Ciliophora). J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 56: 339-347
36. Gourret P., Roeser P. (1886) Les protozoaires du Vieux-Port de Marseille. Arch. Zool. Expér. Gen. 4: 507-511
37. Gourret P., Roeser P. (1888) Contribution à l'étude des protozoaires de la Corse. Archs Biol. 8: 173-204
38. Hu X., Suzuki T. (2005) Light microscopical observations on two marine dysteriid ciliates from Japan, including a description of Dysteria yagiui nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida). Eur. J. Protistol. 41: 29-36
39. ICZN [The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature] (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth edition adopted by the International Union of Biological Sciences. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London
40. Jankowski A. W. (1968) Morphology, phylogeny and position in the system of Lynchella Kahl, 1933 (Ciliophora). Gidrobiol. Zh. [=Hydrobiol. J.] 4: 9-15
41. Ji D., Xu H., Choi J. K., Warren A., Song W. (2009) Taxonomic characterization of three marine peritrichous ciliates from China: Zoothamnium alrasheidi spec. nov., Z. marinum Khal, 1933 and Z. vermicola Precht, 1935 (Ciliophora: Peritrichia). Acta Protozool. 48: 171-183
42. Kahl A. (1928) Die Infusorien (Ciliata) der Oldesloer Salzwasserstellen. Arch. Hydrobiol. 19: 50-246
43. Kahl A. (1931) Urtiere oder Protozoa I: Wimpertiere oder Ciliata (Infusoria) 2. Holotricha ausser den im 1. Teil behandelten Prostomata. Tierwelt Dtl. 21: 181-398
44. Kahl A. (1933) Ciliata libera et ectocommensalia. In: Grimpe, G., Wagler, E. (Eds.), Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee, 26: 147-183
45. Pan H., Gao F., Li J., Lin X., Al-Farraj S. A., Al-Rasheid K. A. S. (2010) Morphology and phylogeny of two new pleurostomatid ciliates, Epiphyllum shenzhenensen. sp. and Loxophyllum spirellum n. sp. (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from a mangrove wetland, south China. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 57: 421-428
46. Petz W., Song W., Wilbert N. (1995) Taxonomy and ecology of the ciliate fauna (Protozoa, Ciliophora) in the endopagial and pelagial of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Stapfia 40: 1-223
47. Shao C., Song W., Gong J. (2008) Morphology and morphogenesis of a new marine cyrtophorid ciliate, Hartmannula sinica nov. spec. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida) from China. Eur. J. Protistol. 44: 1-12
48. Song W. (2003) On two marine cyrtophorid ciliates from China, with description of Chlamydonella derouxi nov. spec. and Orthotrochilia pilula (Deroux, 1976) nov. comb., and reestablishment of the genus Orthotrochilia nov. gen. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida). Hydrobiologia 499: 169-177
49. Song W., Packroff G. (1997) Taxonomische Untersuchungen an marinen Ciliaten aus China mit Beschreibungen von zwei neuen Arten, Strombidium globosaneum nov. spec. und S. platum nov. spec. (Protozoa, Ciliophora). Arch. Protistenkd. 147: 331-360
50. Song W., Wilbert N. (2002) Faunistic studies on marine ciliates form the Antarctic benthic area, including descriptions of one epizoic form, 6 new species and, 2 new genera (Protozoa, Ciliophora). Acta Protozool. 41: 23-61
51. Wilbert N. (1971) Morphologie und Ökologie einiger neuer Ciliaten (Holotricha, Cyrtophorina) des Aufwuchses. Protistologica 7: 357-363
52. Wilbert N. (1975) Eine verbesserte Technik der Protargolimprägnation für Ciliaten. Mikrokosmos 64: 171-179
53. Wilbert N., Song W. (2005) New contributions to the marine benthic ciliates from the Antarctic area, including description of seven new species (Protozoa, Ciliophora). J. Nat. Hist. 39: 935-973
54. Zhang Q., Yi Z., Song W., Al-Rasheid K. A. S., Warren A. (2010) The systematic position of Paraspathidium Noland, 1937 (Ciliophora, Litostomatea?) inferred from primary SSU rRNA gene sequences and predicted secondary rRNA structure. Eur. J. Protistol. 46: 280-288