Kyaroikeus paracetarius, Jin & Qu & Wei & Montagnes & Fan & Chen, 2021

Jin, Didi, Qu, Zhishuai, Wei, Bojue, Montagnes, David J. S., Fan, Xinpeng & Chen, Xiangrui, 2021, Two parasitic ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Phyllopharyngea) isolated from respiratory-mucus of an unhealthy beluga whale: characterization, phylogeny and an assessment of morphological adaptations, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191, pp. 941-960 : 944

KYAROIKEUS PARACETARIUS , SP. NOV.

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Zoobank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:199C1DAD-F159-4EA7-ACB2-C03492F12B00 .

Diagnosis: Size 150–400 × 20–40 μm in vivo; spindleshaped; deep oral cavity composed of a pre-oral kinety and two circumoral kineties; no nematodesmal rods; 37–69 right kineties, seven to 13 left kineties; four kinetofragments located near equatorial position; equatorial fragment positioned next to the middle part of the rightmost right kinety; non-ciliated stripe underlain by 11–16 fibrous tracks; a bifurcated secretory organelle opened at the tip of podite; one ovoid macronucleus.