identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
71E5E9E724E950FA923B78F088FD53E8.text	71E5E9E724E950FA923B78F088FD53E8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Anteholosticha nanjiensis Zhao & Wu & Jiang & Chen 2026	<div><p>Anteholosticha nanjiensis sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 2 A – H, 3 A – L, 3 Table 1</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Body size in vivo 90–115 × 40–50 μm; anterior portion slightly narrowed, posterior end broadly rounded. Cortical granules colourless, spherical, about 0.5 μm in diameter, arranged in more or less longitudinal short rows on whole cortex. Macronuclear nodules 2–4. Adoral zone of membranelles composed of 26–37 membranelles. Two frontoterminal cirri. Midventral cirral pairs 8–14. One right and one left marginal cirral row consisting of 19–28 and 18–28 cirri, respectively. Four bipolar dorsal kineties composed of 10–18, 10–16, 10–17, and 11–17 dikinetids, respectively.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The species name nanjiensis refers to Nanji Island, where the new taxon had been discovered.</p><p>Type materials.</p><p>Five slides with protargol staining specimens have been deposited in the ciliate specimen repositories, including one slide (registration number WZH-20221117-01) with the holotype specimen deposited in the Laboratory of Protozoology, Ocean University of China (OUC) and four slides (registration numbers WZH-20221117-02, 03, 04, 05) with paratype specimens deposited in Laboratory of Protozoans in Coastal Water Environments, Ningbo University.</p><p>Morphological description.</p><p>Body size in vivo 90–115 × 40–50 μm and 93–160 × 38–73 μm after protargol staining (Figs 2 A, 2 G, 2 H, 3 A, 3 I, 3 J). Body shape slightly variable and elliptic; anterior portion slightly narrowed and forming a slightly cephalized appearance, while posterior end broadly rounded (Figs 2 A, 3 A, 3 B). Dorsoventrally flattened about 2: 1. Cytoplasm colourless to light grey, containing some lipid droplets, food vacuoles, and some irregular crystals (Figs 2 A, 3 A, 3 B). One contractile vacuole about 11–13 μm across during diastole, positioned in mid-body near left margin (Figs 2 A, 3 A, 3 C). Cortical granules colourless, spherical, about 0.5 μm in diameter, arranged in more or less longitudinal short rows on whole cortex with some single ones sparsely distributed throughout the cell surface (Figs 2 B, 2 C, 3 E – G). Macronuclear nodules 2–4 (usually 4), globular to ellipsoidal, serially distributed in mid-portion of body left of midline which can be easily observed under moderate to high magnification in vivo, with nodule sizes about 7–19 × 6–11 μm (after protargol staining) (Figs 2 D – F, 2 H, 3 I). Micronuclei 1–2, ovoid, located separately among macronuclear nodules, 6 μm in diameter (after protargol staining) (Figs 2 H, 3 I). Body apparently flexible, folded or twisted when crawling on bottom of Petri dish or drilling through debris.</p><p>Adoral zone of membranelles (AZM) occupying 25–39 % (on average 31 %) of body length after protargol staining, composed of 26–37 membranelles, with cilia up to 9–11 μm long in vivo (Figs 2 A, 2 G, 3 A, 3 I, 3 T able 1). Paroral and endoral membrane almost the same length, distinctly intersecting each other and terminating anteriorly in upper 1 / 3 of buccal field (Figs 2 G, 3 I, 3 K). Cirral pattern shown in Figs 2, 3. Three slightly enlarged frontal cirri lying in frontal area (Figs 2 G, 3 I). Single buccal cirrus situated on the right side of the anterior end of the undulating membranes (Figs 2 G, 3 I, 3 K). Two frontoterminal cirri near and right of distal end of adoral zone of membranelles (Figs 2 G, 3 I, 3 K). Cirri 6–8, relatively transverse, and arranged in J-shaped row (Figs 2 G, 3 I, 3 L). Always two pretransverse ventral cirri located ahead of the right transverse cirrus (Figs 2 G, 3 L). Midventral complex only composed of 8–14 pairs of midventral cirri arranged in a typical zigzag pattern, continuing with frontal cirri and extending to the rear 1 / 3 of the body length (Figs 2 G, 3 I). One right and one left marginal cirral row comprising 19–28 and 18–28 cirri, respectively (Figs 2 G, 3 I).</p><p>Invariably, four complete bipolar dorsal kineties, composed of 10–18, 10–16, 10–17, and 11–17 dikinetids, respectively; One or two bristles recognized ahead of right marginal cirral row in eightof 20 individuals examined (Figs 2 H, 3 J, 3 M, 3 T able 1). Dorsal cilia about 3 μm long in vivo (Fig. 3 H).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/71E5E9E724E950FA923B78F088FD53E8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Zhao, Xuetong;Wu, Zehao;Jiang, Yaohan;Chen, Xiangrui	Zhao, Xuetong, Wu, Zehao, Jiang, Yaohan, Chen, Xiangrui (2026): Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a new ciliate Anteholosticha nanjiensis sp. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) collected from the coastal intertidal zone of the East China Sea. ZooKeys 1273: 27-42, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1273.184181
