Clevelandella ananiasi sp.nov.

ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 693D96F5- 0E81-4648-BE2B-F5AC52FD31CB.

Diagnosis: Spade-shaped, dorsoventrally flattened Clevelandella with average length in protargol preparations 55 µm, mean 23 adoral membranelles, posterior protrusion of left lobe of anterior body part overhanging no more than one-fifth of peristomial projection, and with teardrop-shaped or ellipsoidal macronucleus.

Etymology: Named in honour of Mr Ananias Kamam, our collaborator from Papua New Guinea.

Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Wanang 3, S5.228, E145.080 .

Type host: Ancaudellia serratissima serratissima (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865).

Type material: A protargol-impregnated holotype cell (Fig. 4D, E) marked in a black circle on a slide deposited in the collection of the National Museum of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, inventory number P6E 5431 .