PLAGIOPYLA NYCTOTHERUS

Nitla, Venkatamahesh, Serra, Valentina, Fokin, Sergei I., Modeo, Letizia, Verni, Franco, Sandeep, Bhagavatula Venkata, Kalavati, Chaganti & Petroni, Giulio, 2019, Critical revision of the family Plagiopylidae (Ciliophora: Plagiopylea), including the description of two novel species, Plagiopyla ramani and Plagiopyla narasimhamurtii, and redescription of Plagiopyla nasuta Stein, 1860 from India, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186, pp. 1-45 : 36

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POLJANSKY & GOLIKOVA, 1959

1959: Plagiopyla nyctotherus – Poljansky & Golikova, Zool. Zh., 38: 1141–1142; figs 2, 3 (original description, illustrated, no type material available).

2007: Plagiopyla nyctotherus Poljansky & Golikova, 1959 – Jankowski, Russian Acad. Sci. , p. 792 (revision).

Improved diagnosis ( Fig. 18N): Body length 79–120 µm, body width 46–83 µm. Somatic kineties: about 70. Striated band not detected, apparently absent. One ovoid macronucleus (Ø about 35.6 ± 1.3 µm) and a single, compact-type micronucleus. One contractile vacuole. Cytoproct not described. Extrusomes not detected, apparently absent.

Typelocality/ecologyanddistribution: Endocommensal of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis . Found in Dalnie Zelenci, Russia, along the coastline of the Barents Sea ( Poljansky & Golikova, 1959).

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