An annotated and revised checklist of pleurostome ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) from Slovakia, Central Europe Author Vďačný, Peter Author Rajter, Ľubomír text Zootaxa 2014 2014-02-04 3760 4 501 521 journal article 46512 10.11646/zootaxa.3760.4.1 1b1f8bfa-3a27-4079-99bf-e2b0232c1b05 1175-5326 225465 A2E3A664-E992-40AB-8327-59998302652D Litonotus varsaviensis (Wrześniowski, 1866) Wrześniowski, 1870 Amphileptus bivacuolata Tirjaková 1993: 133 . Hemiophrys bivacuolata Matis 1988: 57 ; Tirjaková & Matis 1987: 8 . Litonotus varsaviensis Tirjaková 1997b: 27 ; Andelová & Tirjaková 2000: 35 ; Chrenková & Tirjaková 2000: 47 ; Tirjaková 2001: 16 ; Tirjaková 2003a: 37 ; Tirjaková 2003b: 20 ; Tirjaková 2004: 7 ; Krno et al. 2006: 308 ; Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013a: 671 ; Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013b: 529 . Main morphological characters (according to Foissner et al. 1995 ). Size 80–150 × 35–55 µm in vivo . Body drop-like to lanceolate, with usually broadly rounded posterior end. Usually two macronuclear nodules with a single micronucleus in between. At least two (3–5) ventral contractile vacuoles: one subterminal and other one in about mid-body. Extrusomes broadly fusiform, about 4–6 µm long, attached to anterior half of oral bulge and scattered in cytoplasm. Somatic ciliary pattern Litonotus -like; 6–11 right and 4–9 left kineties. Distribution. Litonotus varsaviensis was recorded in submerged mosses from Slovenský Raj at a frequency of 1.88 ( Tirjaková & Matis 1987 ); in organic mud from activated sludge plants in the town of Bratislava ( Matis 1988 ); in the periphyton and benthos of the Turiec River ( Tirjaková 1993 ); in an oligotrophic stream in the National Nature Reserve Rozsutec, Malá Fatra Mts ( Tirjaková 1997b ); in soil under mosses and in mosses from the town of Bratislava ( Andelová & Tirjaková 2000 , Chrenková & Tirjaková 2000 ); in the benthos from the Gidra River ( Tirjaková 2003a ); in the benthos from the Stupavský potok brook ( Tirjaková 2003b ); in mosses from the fluviatile tract of the Hincov potok stream, High Tatra Mts ( Krno et al. 2006 ; Tirjaková 2001 , 2004 ); in the sediment from the littoral zone of the upper Váh River ( Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013a ); in the sediment from the Zubrovica stream, Low Tatra Mts ( Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013b ).