Amphileptus falcatus Song & Wilbert, 1989

Vďačný, Peter & Rajter, Ľubomír, 2014, An annotated and revised checklist of pleurostome ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) from Slovakia, Central Europe, Zootaxa 3760 (4), pp. 501-521 : 506

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3760.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A2E3A664-E992-40AB-8327-59998302652D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6127119

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AA61DC68-FFBF-032E-FF43-FC54FFFBFBFA

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Plazi

scientific name

Amphileptus falcatus Song & Wilbert, 1989
status

 

Amphileptus falcatus Song & Wilbert, 1989 View in CoL

Amphileptus falcatus View in CoL — Tirjaková 1998: 15.

Main morphological characters (according to Song & Wilbert 1989). Size 25–70 × 15–30 µm in vivo. Body broadly drop-like, posteriorly broadly rounded. A single ellipsoidal macronuclear nodule with a single micronucleus. Contractile vacuole ventral and subterminal. Extrusomes fusiform, 3–4 µm long, few present in cytoplasm of anterior body half. Somatic ciliary pattern Amphileptus -like; 12–17 right and about 5–6 left kineties.

Distribution. This species was found at several localities in the benthos of the Hron River ( Tirjaková 1998).

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Ciliophora

Class

Gymnostomatea

Order

Pleurostomatida

Family

Amphileptidae

Genus

Amphileptus

Loc

Amphileptus falcatus Song & Wilbert, 1989

Vďačný, Peter & Rajter, Ľubomír 2014
2014
Loc

Amphileptus falcatus

Tirjakova 1998: 15
1998
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