Published January 12, 2024 | Version v1
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Rhabdostyla pristinis Righi 1973

  • 1. ¹ Laboratório de Protozoologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Martelos, 36036 - 900, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Description

Rhabdostyla pristinis Righi 1973 — Fig. 4, G’

Diagnosis: Size about 37 µm long and 48 µm wide. Peduncle long, about 1/3 or 1/4 the size of the body, with four or five flexible transverse appendages. Transversely striated pellicle. Narrow, flat-surfaced peristomial disc with circular peristomial membrane. Infundibulum reaching about half of the body length and constricted in front of the contractile vacuole. Spiral macronucleus. Found on oligochaetes, Pristinis minuta.

Remarks: diagnosis according to Righi (1973)

Notes

Published as part of Souza, Pedro Mendes De, Rossi, Mariana Fonseca & Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso, 2024, Systematic review of the genera Rhabdostyla Kent 1880 and Orborhabdostyla Foissner et al. 2010 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia, Epistylididae), pp. 201-230 in Zootaxa 5399 (3) on page 220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10516774

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Epistylididae
Genus
Rhabdostyla
Kingdom
Chromista
Order
Peritrichida
Phylum
Ciliophora
Scientific name authorship
Righi
Species
pristinis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhabdostyla pristinis Righi, 1973 sec. Souza, Rossi & Dias, 2024

References

  • Righi, G. (1973) On Pristina minuta (Oligochaeta, Naididae) from Brazilian soil and its epizoic Rhabdostyla pristinis sp. n. (Ciliata, Epistylidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 191, 295 - 299.