Redescriptions of three marine ciliates, Strombidium elegans Florentin, 1901, Strombidium sulcatum Claparède Lachmann, 1859 and Heterostrombidium paracalkinsi Lei, Xu Song, 1999 (Ciliophora, Oligotrichida)》.pdf

Europ. J. Protisto!. 36, 327-342 (2000) European Journal of September 25,2000 http://www.urbanfischer.de/journals/ejp PROTISTOLOGY Redescriptions of Three Marine Ciliates, Strombidium elegans Florentin, 1901, Strombidium sulcatum Claparede Lachmann, 1859 and Heterostrombidium paracalkinsi Lei, Xu Song, 1999 (Ciliophora, Oligotrichida) Weibo Sonq, Mei Wang 1 and Alan warren- 1 Laboratory of Protozoology, ARL, Ocean University of Qingdao, 266003 Qingdao, P.R. China 2 Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Summary Key words: Marine ciliates; Oligotrichina; Morphology and infraciliature; New species; Yellow Sea, China. The morphology and infraciliature of three marine olig- otrich ciliates, Strombidium elegans Florentin, 1901,Strom- bidium sulcatum Claparede Lachmann, 1859, and Het- Introduction erostrombidium paracalkinsi Lei, Xu Song, 1999, collect- ed from coastal mollusc farming ponds near Qingdao (Yel- Oligotrichs are often the dominant planktonic cili- low Sea, north China) are investigated based on observa- tions of specimens in vivo and following protargol impreg- ates in both marine and freshwaters. About 200 puta- nation. Since no recent data deriving from modern studies tive aloricate species belonging to the suborder Olig- on Strombidium elegans are available, a detailed redescrip- otrichina have been reported [1, 11, 23, 29, 34, 39, 43, tion is given and some syn