New Data Define the Molecular Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Four Freshwater Suctorian Ciliates With Redefinition of Two Families Heliophryidae and Cyclophryidae (Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea, Suctoria)

Four suctorian ciliates, Cyclophrya magna Gönnert, 1935, Peridiscophrya florea (Kormos & Kormos, 1958) Dovgal, 2002, Heliophrya rotunda (Hentschel, 1916) Matthes, 1954 and Dendrosoma radians Ehrenberg, 1838, were collected from a freshwater lake in Ningbo, China. The morphological redescript...

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Main Authors: Mingzhen Ma, Yuqing Li, Qingxiang Yuan, Xuetong Zhao, Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid, Jie Huang, Honggang Ma, Xiangrui Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.768724/full