An annotated and revised checklist of pleurostome ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) from Slovakia, Central Europe
Author
Vďačný, Peter
Author
Rajter, Ľubomír
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-02-04
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10.11646/zootaxa.3760.4.1
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Litonotus anguilla
Kahl, 1931
Litonotus anguila
—
Tirjaková & Matis 1987: 9
;
Matis & Tirjaková 1992: 52
.
Litonotus anguilla
—
Tirjaková 1993: 134
;
Matis & Tirjaková 1994: 58
;
Krno
et al.
1995: 33
.
Nomenclature.
Misspelled as “
L. anguila
” by
Matis & Tirjaková (1992)
and
Tirjaková & Matis (1987)
, and thus unavailable according to the Articles 33.3 and 33.5 of
the ICZN (1999)
.
Main morphological characters
(according to
Song & Wilbert 1989
). Length 150–300 µm
in vivo
. Body lanceolate with narrowly rounded posterior body end; 3–4 ribs on left side. Two macronuclear nodules with a single micronucleus in between. Contractile vacuole distinctly subterminal. Extrusomes rod-like, about 3–5 µm long, attached along whole length of oral bulge. Somatic ciliary pattern
Litonotus
-like; 10–12 right and about 5 left kineties.
Distribution.
Litonotus anguilla
was recorded in submerged and wet mosses from Slovenský Raj at a frequency of about 1.9 and 1.5, respectively (
Tirjaková & Matis 1987
); in the backwaters of the Danube River in Čičov (
Matis & Tirjaková 1992
); in the periphyton and benthos of the Turiec River (
Tirjaková 1993
); in the Stupavský potok brook (
Matis & Tirjaková 1994
); in a groundwater vein in the Vtáčnik Mountain Range (
Krno
et al.
1995
).