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) .