Pleuronema setigerum Calkins, 1902

Xuming Pan, 2016, Seven scuticociliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Alabama, USA, with descriptions of two parasitic species isolated from a freshwater mussel Potamilus purpuratus, European Journal of Taxonomy 249, pp. 1-19 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2016.249
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:43278833-B695-4375-B1BD-E98C28A9E50E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631567
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C487DB-6852-FFB1-5768-F95C8B543404
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pleuronema setigerum Calkins, 1902
status

Treatment

Remarks and comparison

Kahl (1931) redescribed this species, and Borror (1963a) described its infraciliature but gave only a diagram of the buccal morphology. Pan et al. (2010) offered improved diagnoses of this species based on a Chinese population. Cells of the North American population matched previous descriptions of the species in all morphological characters, except body size in vivo (50–70 × 25–35 μm vs 30–50 × 15–30 μm).