Kathablepharis remigera (Vørs 1992) Clay et Kugrens 1999

Aydin, Esra Elif & Lee, Won Je, 2012, Free-living Heterotrophic Flagellates from Intertidal Sediments of Saros Bay, Aegean Sea (Turkey), Acta Protozoologica 51 (2), pp. 119-137 : 127

Kathablepharis remigera (Vørs 1992) Clay et Kugrens 1999 ( Figs 1s , 2q )

(= Leucocryptos remigera Vørs 1992 )

Observation: Cells are oblong or cylindrical, 12– 15 μm long, not flattened and with two rows of extrusomes located ventrally. Two flagella inserting subapically are thick and unequal in length, and may wrap around the body during swimming. The anterior flagellum is about 2 times the cell length and may coil up during resting, and the posterior one is about 2.5 times the cell length. The nucleus lies in the middle of the cell. The cells rotate while swimming. Description based on observations of three cells.

Remarks: Kathablepharis is similar to Platychilomonas in general appearance, but it may be distinguished because Platychilomonas is flattened. This species is reported from marine sites in Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Gulf of Finland and Greenland, and the length was reported to be 7 to 25 μm under the name Leucocryptos remigera ( Vørs 1992a, b, c, 1993a; Vørs et al. 1995; Tong 1997b; Lee and Patterson 2000).

Figures

Fig. 1. a – Actinomonas mirabilis/Pteridomonas danica; b – Amastigomonas mutabilis; c – Ancyromonas micra; d – Bicosoeca conica; e – Bordnamonas tropicana; f – Caecitellus parvulus; g – Cafeteria minuta; h – Cafeteria roenbergensis; i – Cyranomonas australis; j – Developayella elegans; k – Discocelis saleuta; l – Goniomonas amphinema; m – Goniomonas pasifica; n – Kiitoksia ystava; o – Dinema platysomum; p – Anisonema acinus; q – Heteronema exaratum; r – Heteronema ovale; s – Kathablepharis remigera; t – Notosolenus canellatus; u – Massisteria marina; v – Metromonas grandis; w – Neobodo designis; x – Neobodo saliens; y – Percolomonas similis. Scale bar: 10 μm for all figures.

Fig. 2. a – Actinomonas mirabilis/Pteridomonas danica; b – Amastigomonas mutabilis; c – Ancyromonas micra; d – Bicosoeca conica; e – Caecitellus parvulus, note the mouth on the left-hand side; f – Bordnamonas tropicana; g – Cafeteria roenbergensis; h – Cyranomonas australis; i – Developayella elegans; j – Discocelis saleuta; k – Goniomonas amphinema; l – Cafeteria minuta, feeding cell; m – Anisonema acinus, dorsal view, note the ingestion organelle; n – Dinema platysomum, ventral view showing surface striations; o – Goniomonas pacifica; p – Heteronema exaratum, ventral view, general appearance of cell; q – Kathablepharis remigera; r – Massisteria marina; s – Neobodo saliens; t – Neobodo designis; u–v – Heteronema ovale, same cell; u – general appearance; v – extended cell. All micrographs are DIC images. Scale bar: 5 μm for all figures.