Anteholosticha sphagni (Grolière, 1975) Berger,, 2003

Lee, Sue Yeon, Yoo, Jung Sun & Kim, Seung Tae, 2017, New records of terrestrial and freshwater ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from Korea: Brief descriptions with notes, Journal of Species Research 6, pp. 1-7 : 6

11. Anteholosticha sphagni (Grolière, 1975) Berger,

2003 ( Fig. 2E)

Diagnosis. Body size approximate 65 × 15 μm in protargol preparations; body shape elongated ellipsoidal, flattened dorsoventrally, both body ends rounded; flexible. Nuclear apparatus composed of ca. 10 macronuclear nodules with several micronuclei at left mid-body. Cortical granules lacking. Cytoplasm colourless. Movement, without any peculiarities, crawling on soil surface. Cirri pattern, on average, composed of 3 frontal cirri, 1 buccal cirrus, 2 frontoterminal cirri, ca. 9 midventral cirral pairs, 2 pretransverse ventral cirri, 5 transverse cirri, 1 left and 1 right marginal row; 4 dorsal kineties.

Remarks. The species rarely occurred in our samples, and only two specimens were examined. Further investigation is necessary to provide morphometric data for the Korean population. Of the Anteholosticha species, A. distyla has a similar morphology to A. sphagni , and it mainly differs from the latter based on the number of transverse cirri (typically two and five in A. distyla and A. sphagni , respectively) ( Berger, 2006).

Voucher slides. Two slides, including protargol-impregnated specimens (TB6), were deposited at the National Institute of Biological Resources in Korea (NIBR PR0000107183, NIBRPR0000107184).