Telonema subtilis Griessmann, 1913

Lee, Won Je, 2019, Small Free-Living Heterotrophic Flagellates from Marine Intertidal Sediments of the Sydney Region, Australia, Acta Protozoologica 58 (4), pp. 167-189 : 176

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https://doi.org/ 10.4467/16890027AP.19.016.12018

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12637213

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scientific name

Telonema subtilis Griessmann, 1913
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Telonema subtilis Griessmann, 1913

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Description: Cell outline is oval-ovoid. Cells are about 8 µm long, anteriorly narrow and posteriorly broad with a short anterior neck. Two flagella insert below the neck are acronematic and are slightly longer than the cell. The nucleus is centrally located. The cells swim backward with the flagella, which point behind the swimming cells. Food materials are shown in the posterior end of the cell. Not common. Only found once at Woolooware Bay.

Remarks: The observation is in accord with Griessmann (1913). This species has been found at marine sites in France, Mediterranean, Arctic Norway, Antarctica, Australia, Arctic Canada & Greenland, Japan, Belize, Norway and Gulf of Finland (e.g. Vørs 1992a, b, 1993a, b; Patterson et al. 1993; Tong et al. 1997, 1998; Vørs et al. 1995; Yabuki et al. 2013; Lee 2015). It has not been reported from freshwater sites. Previously cell lengths were reported to be from 4 to 18 µm. This species is distinguished from Telonema antarctica Thomsen, 1992 by the cell shape. Telonema antarctica is reniforme.

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