PSEUDOPLAGIOPYLA SINISTRA

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 : 39

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SMALL & LYNN, 1985

1985: Pseudoplagiopyla sinistra – Small & Lynn, Soc. Protozool., p. 565; fig 5 (original description, illustrated, no type material available).

2000: Pseudoplagiopyla sinistra Small & Lynn, 1985 – Lynn & Small, Soc. Protozool., p. 578; fig 6 (guide).

Diagnosis ( Fig. 17C): Body length 83 µm (estimated), body width 27 µm (estimated), after staining. Tubular part of oral cavity extending directly backward. Number of somatic kineties estimated around 48. Striated band not discussed, but presumably present according to the taxonomic key provided by the authors. One dumb-bell-shaped macronucleus (estimated size: 29 × 8–14 µm) and a single micronucleus. Contractile vacuole, cytoproct, and extrusomes not discussed.

Type locality/ecology and distribution: No data.

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