Parametacystis, Jiang & Wang & Liao & Al-Farraj & Warren & Hu, 2024

Jiang, Limin, Wang, Congcong, Liao, Lijian, Al-Farraj, Saleh A., Warren, Alan & Hu, Xiaozhong, 2024, Re-evaluation of the systematic position of the order Prostomatida (Protista: Ciliophora), with the establishment of two new genera and two new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (4), pp. 849-864 : 854

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad116
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11241023
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scientific name	Parametacystis
status	gen. nov.

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Genus Parametacystis gen. nov.

Zoobank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:976EB549-956F-4415-82D3-D6686D77BE2E

Diagnosis: Body with transverse annulations; protruding caudal vacuole present; contractile vacuole absent; oral ciliature simple, composed only of an incomplete circumoral kinety; somatic kinetids generally forming transverse rows; perioral kineties composed of several transverse rings.

Etymology: The genus name Parametacystis is a composite of the Greek adjective para- (beside) and the genus name Metacystis , alluding to the similarity of these two genera. Feminine gender.

Type species: Parametacystis pulchra gen. nov., sp. nov.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Chromista
Phylum	Ciliophora
Class	Prostomatea
Order	Prostomatida
Family	Apsiktratidae

Specimens

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