Abstract
The species composition of freshwater heliozoan in the Central Russian Upland forest steppe has been researched using the Usman’ River and different waterbodies of Usmanskiy Les in Voronezh oblast as an example. Nine species and two forms of heliozoans from four taxonomic groups have been found, five of the species being new for freshwater heliozoan fauna of Russia. Illustrated descriptions are given for the species found. The highest species diversity of the studied protists was recorded for bogs, which indicates that they have more favorable conditions for these organisms than lakes and small rivers.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Dogel’, V.A., Polyanskii, Yu.I., and Kheisin, E.M., Obshchaya protozoologiya (General Protozoology), Leningrad: Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1962.
Zhivotova, E.N., Subkingdom Protozoa, in Kadastr bespozvonochnykh zhivotnykh Voronezhskoi oblasti (Cadastre of Invertebrates of Voronezh Oblast), Voronezh: Izd. Voronezh. Gos. Univ., 2005, pp. 21–49.
Zhivotova, E.N. and Koroteeva, O.A., To the Study of the Hydroclimatic Regime of Some Water Bodies of the Usman Pine Forest, in Gidrobiologicheskie issledovaniya vodoemov Srednerusskoi lesostepi (Hydrologic Studies of Water Bodies of the Central Russian Forest-Steppe), Voronezh: Izd. Voronezh. Gos. Univ., 2002, vol. 1, pp. 221–228.
Karpov, S.A., Stroenie kletki protistov: Uch. posobie (Protist Cell Structure: A Manual), St. Petersburg: TESSA, 2001.
Mikrjukov, K.A., Revision of the Generic and Specific Composition of the Family Ananthinostidaa (Nantrihaliizia, Sarnidina), Zool. Zh., 1997, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 389–401.
Mikrjukov, K.A., To the Biology of Heliozoans: Phenomenon of Formation of Radial Forms in Benthic Sarcodina, Zool. Zh., 1998, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 147–157.
Mikrjukov, K.A., The System and Phylogeny of Heliozoa: Should This Taxon Exist in Contemporary Systems of Protista? Zool. Zh., 2000, vol. 79, no. 8, pp. 883–897.
Mikrjukov, K.A., Tsentrokhelidnye solnechniki (Centroheliozoa) (Centrohelid Heliozoans (Centroheliozoa)), Moscow: Tovarishch. Nauch. Izdanii KMK, 2002.
Silina, A.E. and Prokin, A.A., Benthic Macrofauna of the Klyukvennoe-1 Bog in the Usman Pine Forest, in Gidrobiologicheskie issledovaniya vodoemov Srednerusskoi lesostepi (Hydrologic Studies of Water Bodies of the Central Russian Forest-Steppe), Voronezh: Izd. Voronezh. Gos. Univ., 2002, vol. 1, pp. 151–220.
Hausmann, K., Protozoologie, Stuttgart: Gairg Oiama Varlag, 1985. Translated under the title Protozoologiya, Moscow: Mir, 1988.
Mikrjukov, K.A., Taxonomic Revision of Scale-Bearing Heliozoon-Like Amoebae (Pompholyxophryidae, Rotosphaerida), Acta Protozool., 1999, vol. 38, pp. 119–131.
Mikrjukov, K.A., Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Heliozoa. I. The Order Desmothoracida Hertwig et Lesser, 1874, Acta Protozool., 2000, vol. 39, pp. 81–97.
Mikrjukov, K.A., Heliozoa As a Component of Marine Microbenthos: A Study of Heliozoa of the White Sea, Ophelia, 2001, vol. 54, pp. 51–73.
Mikrjukov, K.A. and Patterson, D.J., Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Heliozoa. III. Actinophryida, Acta Protozool., 2001, vol. 40, pp. 3–25.
Mikrjukov, K.A., Patterson, D.J., and Siemensma, F.J., The Heliozoa, Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa, Lawrence: Allen Press, 2000, pp. 860–871.
Nicholls, K.H. and Durrschmidt, M., Scale Structure and Taxonomy of Some Species of Raphidocystis, Raphidiophrys, and Pompholyxophrys (Heliozoea) Including Descriptions of Six New Taxa, Can. J. Zool., 1985, vol. 63, pp. 1944–1961.
Siemensma, F.J., Klasse Heliozoa Haeckel, 1866, Protozoenfauna, Stuttgart: Gustav Fisher Verlag, 1991.
Wujek, D.E., Freshwater Scaled Heterotrophic Protistans from Four Gulf States, Including Descriptions of Two New Species, J. Alabama Acad. Sci., 2003, vol. 74, pp. 164–182.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Additional information
Original Russian Text © M.M. Leonov, 2009, published in Biologiya Vnutrennikh Vod, No. 1, 2009, pp. 8–14.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Leonov, M.M. Heliozoan fauna of waterbodies and watercourses of the Central Russian Upland forest-steppe. Inland Water Biol 2, 6–12 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082909010027
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082909010027