Bergeriella ovata, 2010

Liu, Weiwei, Shao, Chen, Gong, Jun, Li, Jiqiu, Lin, Xiaofeng & Song, Weibo, 2010, Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of a new marine urostylid ciliate (Ciliophora, Stichotrichia) from the South China Sea, and a brief overview of the convergent evolution of the midventral pattern within the Spirotrichea, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (4), pp. 697-710 : 700

BERGERIELLA OVATA GEN. ET SP. NOV.

Diagnosis: Marine Bergeriella in vivo 80–120 ¥ 40– 60 Mm, body ellipsoidal to elongate ovoid, usually brownish in colour; yellow-brown cortical granules situated along cirral rows, and between dorsal kineties; 20–35 adoral membranelles; 6–13 frontal and 1–4 buccal cirri; midventral rows composed of 21–38 cirri, with 5–8 postoral ventral and 5–8 left ventral rows; 17–38 left and 19–38 right marginal cirri; one nonmigratory row consists of 16–32 cirri; normally 3 dorsal kineties; ~70–140 macronuclear nodules and 3–6 micronuclei.

Type location: Coastal water off Daya Bay (22°43′N, 114°32′E), Guangdong, China .

Etymology: The Latin word ‘ ovata ’ refers to the oval– elliptic outline of the new species.