Thurstonia de Puytorac, 1968b

Nana, Paul Alain, Tchakonte, Simeon, Mama, Anselme Crepin, Onana, Fils Mamert, Fokam, Zephyrin, Ngassam, Pierre, Masseret, Estelle, Nola, Moïse & Sime-Ngando, Telesphore, 2022, Four new species of Hysterocinetida (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from the digestive tract of earthworms collected to the lower Nyong estuary (South Coast, Cameroon), Zootaxa 5194 (2), pp. 233-244 : 237

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.2.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7148806
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scientific name	Thurstonia de Puytorac, 1968b
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Genre Thurstonia de Puytorac, 1968b

The ciliates of the genus Thurstonia are typically characterized by an inverted-U shaped sucker and devoid of skeletal fibers and isolated segments of kinetics. Two new species of the genus Thurstonia have been identified and described: T. emini n. sp. and T. nilotica n. sp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Chromista
Phylum	Ciliophora
Class	Oligohymenophorea
Order	Scuticociliatida
Family	Hysterocinetidae

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