A Case Study of the Morphological and Molecular Variation within a Ciliate Genus: Taxonomic Descriptions of Three <i>Dysteria</i> Species (Ciliophora, Cyrtophoria), with the Establishment of a New Species

A Case Study of the Morphological and Molecular Variation within a Ciliate Genus: Taxonomic Descriptions of Three <i>Dysteria</i> Species (Ciliophora, Cyrtophoria), with the Establishment of a New Species

Three <i>Dysteria</i> species, <i>D. crassipes</i> Claparède & Lachmann, 1859; <i>D. brasiliensis</i> Faria et al., 1922; and <i>D. paracrassipes</i> n. sp., were collected from subtropical coastal waters of the East China Sea, near Ningbo, China....

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Main Authors: Xuetong Zhao, Hui Zhang, Qianqian Zhang, Zhishuai Qu, Alan Warren, Di Wu, Xiangrui Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-02-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Subjects:
ciliature
molecular phylogeny
morphological diversity
new species
SSU rDNA sequence
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/3/1764

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