Plagiopyla narasimhamurtii, Nitla & Serra & Fokin & Modeo & Verni & Sandeep & Kalavati & Petroni, 2019

PLAGIOPYLA NARASIMHAMURTII SP. NOV.

Diagnosis ( Fig. 18C): Body length 72–88 µm, body width 34–49 µm after silver staining. Somatic kineties: 51–69. Striated band 44.5 µm long. One ovoid macronucleus (15.1 × 14.3 µm after Feulgen staining) and one compact-type micronucleus ( Ø 1.2 –2.2 µm). One contractile vacuole with 2–3 pores opening on the dorsal part of the cell. Cytoproct 24 µm long, located on the dorsal part of the cell, with 3 cytoproct-related ciliary rows on its left. Straight, multi-layered extrusomes (lenght: 3.7 µm), and curved, homogeneous extrusomes (length: 1.6 µm).

Type locality/ecology and distribution: Freshwater in the hypoxic/anoxic part of the water column. Found in Kolleru Lake, Andhra Pradesh, India (present study). Gene sequences: 18S rRNA gene, accession number: KY563721 View Materials (present study) .