Plagiopyla marina, GOURRET & ROESER, 1886

Nitla, Venkatamahesh, Serra, Valentina, Fokin, Sergei I., Modeo, Letizia, Verni, Franco, Sandeep, Bhagavatula Venkata, Kalavati, Chaganti & Petroni, Giulio, 2019, Critical revision of the family Plagiopylidae (Ciliophora: Plagiopylea), including the description of two novel species, Plagiopyla ramani and Plagiopyla narasimhamurtii, and redescription of Plagiopyla nasuta Stein, 1860 from India, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186, pp. 1-45 : 34

PLAGIOPYLA MARINA GOURRET & ROESER, 1886

1886: Plagiopyla nasuta var. marina – Gourret & Roeser, Arch. Zool. Exp. Gen., 4: 476–478; pl. XXIX; fig. 10 (original description, illustrated, no type material available).

1930: Plagiopyla nasuta Stein 1860 – Lynch, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 33: 337–339; fig. B4–6 (illustrated report).

1931: Plagiopyla marina Gourret & Roeser, 1886 – Kahl, Tierwelt Dtl., 21: 265, 267; fig. 45.11 (the author elevates the variety to the rank of species; guide; revision).

1933: Plagiopyla marina Gourret & Roeser, 1886 – Kahl, Tierwelt N., p. 74; fig. 9.4 (guide, revision).

2007: Plagiopyla marina Gourret & Roeser, 1886 – Jankowski, Russian Acad. Sci. , p. 792 (revision).

Improved diagnosis ( Fig. 18G): Body length 70–114 µm, body width 31–56 µm after staining. Somatic kineties not described. Striated band present. One ovoid macronucleus (size 28 × 23 µm) and a single micronucleus (Ø 5 µm). One contractile vacuole. Cytoproct 10 µm long, located on the dorsal part of the cell. Straight extrusomes (length: 7–8 µm), sometimes absent.

Type locality: S eawater in the Gulf of Marseille , France ( Gourret & Roeser, 1886) .

Ecology and distribution: Marine species. Found in France, Gulf of Marseille ( Gourret & Roeser, 1886) and California, Monterey ( Lynch, 1930).