Rhabdophrya Chatton & Collin, 1910

Chatterjee, Tapas, Dovgal, Igor & Sautya, Sabyasachi, 2022, A new species of genus Rhabdophrya (Ciliophora: Suctorea) from the west coast of India and comments on the genus taxonomy, Zootaxa 5178 (3), pp. 293-300 : 297

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.3.8
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7043562
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scientific name	Rhabdophrya Chatton & Collin, 1910
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Genus Rhabdophrya Chatton & Collin, 1910 View in CoL

= Stylarcon Jankowski, 1981

Diagnosis: Suctorian ciliates with unloricate, unbrahched, stalked, elongated, slightly laterally flattened, ribbonlike or sac-like body. Rod like tentacles (pachytenes—term of Jankowski, 2007) are evenly distributed or arranged in fascicles along the lateral edge of body. Macronucleus elongated or long, band-like. Reproduction by exogemmic budding with forming of lateral unciliary, vermiform swarmer (vermigemmy). Type species Rhabdophrya trimorpha Chatton & Collin, 1910 .