Litonotus hirundo
Rosa 1957: 228
Matis 1988: 58
An annotated and revised checklist of pleurostome ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) from Slovakia, Central Europe
Vďačný, Peter
Rajter, Ľubomír
Zootaxa
2014
2014-02-04
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Penard, 1920
Penard
1920
[151,526,799,824]
Gymnostomatea
Litonotidae
Litonotus
Chromista
Pleurostomatida
13
514
Ciliophora
species
hirundo
Litonotus hirundo— Rosa 1957: 228; Matis 1988: 58.
Main morphological characters(according to Kahl 1931). Length 60–80 µm in vivo. Body lanceolate with narrowly rounded posterior body end; left side vaulted with four longitudinal furrows. Two macronuclear nodules with a single micronucleus in between. Contractile vacuole shown as terminal, but described as subterminal. Extrusomes broadly fusiform, 3 µm long, scattered in cytoplasm and possibly also attached to oral bulge. Somatic ciliary pattern Litonotus-like; about 6 right kineties.
Distribution.This species was reported from soils with dense plant covers near Javorina in the Tatra National Park ( Rosa 1957) and from organic mud of activated sludge plants in the town of Bratislava ( Matis 1988).