Euplotes dammamensis, Chen & Zhao & Al-Farraj & Al-Quraishy & El-Serehy & Shao & Al-Rasheid, 2013

Chen, Xiangrui, Zhao, Yan, Al-Farraj, Saleh A., Al-Quraishy, Saleh A., El-Serehy, Hamed A., Shao, Chen & Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S., 2013, Taxonomic Descriptions of Two Marine Ciliates, Euplotes dammamensis n. sp. and Euplotes balteatus (Dujardin, 1841) Kahl, 1932 (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea, Euplotida), Collected from the Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Acta Protozoologica 52 (2), pp. 73-89 : 74-76

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4467/16890027AP.13.008.1087

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13192343

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scientific name

Euplotes dammamensis
status

sp. nov.

Euplotes dammamensis n. sp. ( Figs 1–36 View Figs 1–9 View Figs 10–18 View Figs 19–28 View Figs 29–36 ; Tables 1, 2)

Diagnosis. Marine Euplotes with 10 conspicuous dorsal ridges, 100–170 × 80–120 μm in vivo. Adoral zone comprising about three-quarters of the total cell length, with about 48 membranelles; consistently 10 frontoventral, five transverse and two marginal cirri, and, generally, two or three caudal cirri, with second cirrus prolonged significantly; 11 dorsal kineties with about 16 dikinetids in mid-dorsal row. Macronucleus variable in shape, anterior part typically C-shaped with posterior part distorted.

Type location. Isolated from the Arabian Gulf (26°33′07″N, 50°01′30″E) on 16 December 2011. Salinity about 65‰ and water temperature about 17°C.

Type specimens. The slide (registration number: CXR- 20111216 -20-01) containing the holotype specimen ( Figs 8, 9 View Figs 1–9 , 27, 28 View Figs 19–28 ) and one paratype slide (registration number: CXR- 20111216 -20-02) with protargol-impregnated specimens have been deposited in the Laboratory of Protozoology , Ocean University of China, Qingdao .

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Ciliophora

Class

Hypotrichea

Order

Euplotida

Family

Euplotidae

Genus

Euplotes

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