Rhabdostyla nebulifera (Fromentel 1874)

Souza, Pedro Mendes De, Rossi, Mariana Fonseca & Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso, 2024, Systematic review of the genera Rhabdostyla Kent 1880 and Orborhabdostyla Foissner et al. 2010 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia, Epistylididae), Zootaxa 5399 (3), pp. 201-230 : 219

Rhabdostyla nebulifera (Fromentel 1874)

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Epistylis nebulifera Fromentel, 1874: 239 , pl. V, fig. 2, 3

Rhabdostyla nebulifera Kent, 1881 –1882, pl. XXXIV, fig. 11, 12

Diagnosis: Size about 125µm. Subglobus body, truncated anteriorly. Short peduncle, with about half the length of the body, which widens the closer to the body ending in a fixation disk. Smooth pellicle. Without projections on the peristomial edge. Found in freshwater environments.

Remarks: diagnosis according to Kent (1881)

Figures

FIGURE 3. Schematic drawing of representatives of the Rhabdostyla genus. T: Rhabdostyla inclinans; U: Rhabdostyla invaginata; V: Rhabdostyla libera; W: Rhabdostyla limnophili; X: Rhabdostyla longipes; Y: Rhabdostyla mapuche; Z: Rhabdostyla muscorum; A’: Rhabdostyla patula; B’: Rhabdostyla nebulifera; C’: Rhabdostyla nereicola; D’: Rhabdostyla pussila; E’: Rhabdostyla variabilis.