Aegyria oliva Claparède and Lachmann, 1859

Kim, Ji Hye & Jung, Ji Hye Moon and Jae-Ho, 2018, New records of 24 ciliate species (Protozoa, Ciliophora) collected in South Korea, Journal of Species Research 7 (4), pp. 291-314 : 305

16. Aegyria oliva Claparède and Lachmann, 1859

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Material examined. Marine water (salinity 29‰) collected from Anin Beach , Gangdong-myeon , Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do, Korea (37°44 ʹ 4.7 ʺ N, 128°59 ʹ 24.2 ʹ E) on June 7, 2018 .

Diagnosis. Body size about 96 × 49 μm after protargol impregnation; body shape oval to roughly sigmoid; dark pigment spot on anterior left part; anterior left protrusion absent; single ellipsoidal macronucleus; about 42 somatic kineties; 1 preoral kinety; 3 circumoral kineties; about 7 transpodial segments; 30 nematodesmal rods.

Distribution. China, Germany, Korea.

Remarks. Aegyria oliva is similar to A. apoliva Chen Li, Al-Farraj, Ma and Pan, 2018 . The former is, however, different from the latter by the anterior left protrusion (absent vs. present), the numbers of somatic kineties (about 42 vs. 48-69) and transpodial segments (7 vs. 9-13) ( Gong et al., 2009; Chen et al., 2018).

Voucher slide. One slide of protargol-impregnated specimens was deposited at National Institute of Biological Resources, Korea (NIBRPR0000109436).

Figures

Fig. 16. Aegyria oliva after protargol impregnation. A. Ventral view. B. Dorsal view showing ciliature, pharyngeal rods and macronuclear apparatus. Scale bar=50 μm.