BERGERIELLIDAE, Liu & Shao & Gong & Li & Lin & Song, 2010

Liu, Weiwei, Shao, Chen, Gong, Jun, Li, Jiqiu, Lin, Xiaofeng & Song, Weibo, 2010, Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of a new marine urostylid ciliate (Ciliophora, Stichotrichia) from the South China Sea, and a brief overview of the convergent evolution of the midventral pattern within the Spirotrichea, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (4), pp. 697-710 : 699

BERGERIELLIDAE FAM. NOV.

Diagnosis: Urostylids with a specific ventral cirral field that consists of enlarged postoral cirri and delicate left ventral cirri, both of which are derived from the left part of the midventral streaks during morphogenesis; one marginal row on each side; nonmigratory row present.

Type genus: Bergeriella gen. nov.

Etymology: The new family name is derived from the type genus Bergeriella .