Frontonia depressa (Stokes, 1886) Kahl, 1931

Kim, Ji-Yeong & Jung, Jae-Ho, 2016, Taxonomic survey on ciliate diversity in eastern area of Kangwon-province, Korea: Brief records of fifteen species unrecorded from Korea, Journal of Species Research 5 (3), pp. 333-342 : 337

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https://doi.org/ 10.12651/JSR.2016.5.3.333

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13145029

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Frontonia depressa (Stokes, 1886) Kahl, 1931
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9. Frontonia depressa (Stokes, 1886) Kahl, 1931 View in CoL

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Diagnosis: Body size 65 × 30 μm in protargol preparations; body ellipsoidal to lightly ovate, posterior body end rounded. Macronuclear nodule spherical to elliptical, positioned at mid­body. Contractile vacuole at mid­body with single excretory pore. Cytoplasm colorless. Oral apparatus slightly above mid­body.

Remark: It is first record of the genus from Korea. Foissner et al. (2002) provided detailed comparison to separate congeners mainly by 1) buccal cavity; 2) postoral suture; and 3) excretory pore.

Voucher slides: Two slides including protargol­impregnated specimens have been deposited in the National Institute of Biological Resources in Korea (NIBRPR0000 107142, NIBRPR0000107143).

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