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- Title
Malacophrys viridis sp.n. (Malacophryidae fam.n.), ein Ciliat (Protozoa, Ciliophora) mit Merkmalen der Kinetofragminophora und Oligohymenophora.
- Authors
FOISSNER, WILHELM
- Abstract
The morphology, infraciliature, and silverline system of Malacophrys viridis sp.n., a green-yellow coloured ciliate with symbiotic blue-green algae is described. Dying animals discharge a substance with a dark red autofluorescence. This curious ciliate shares features of the classes Kinetofragminophora (basket) and Oligohymenophora (true buccal cavity with two adoral membranelles and a paroral membrane). Its infraciliature and silverline system shows criteria of the orders Prostomatida, Nassulida-, Parahymenostomatida, Hymenostomatida, and Scuticociliatida. This unique combination allows us to create the new family Malacophryidae whose systematic position remains uncertain. Perhaps they are primitive Nassulida or Parahymenostomatida.
- Publication
Zoologica Scripta, 1980, Vol 9, Issue 1-4, p81
- ISSN
0300-3256
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1463-6409.1980.tb00653.x