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| Author(s): |
da Silva-Neto, Inacio Domingos
[1]
;
Paiva, Thiago da Silva
[1]
;
Pedroso Dias, Roberto Junio
[1]
;
Campos, Carlos Jose Alexandre
[2]
;
Migotto, Alvaro Esteves
[3]
Total Authors: 5
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro UFRJ, Ilha Fundao, Lab Protistol, Dept Zool, Inst Biol, CCS, BR-21941590 Rio De Janeiro, RJ - Brazil
[2] Ctr Environm Fisheries & Aquaculture Sci Cefas, Lowestoft, Suffolk - England
[3] Univ Sao Paulo, Ctr Biol Marinha CEBIMar, Sao Sebastiao, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 3
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY; v. 48, n. 1, p. 48-62, JAN 2012. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 19 |
| Abstract | |
Licnophora chattoni, found in association with Zyzzyzus warreni, a tubulariid hydroid epizoic in sponges from Sao Sebastiao (SP, Brazil), is redescribed and illustrated using light and electron microscopy. The ciliate has a flexible, transparent body formed by an oval anterior region linked to the posterior basal disc via a flexible neck region. Numerous cortical granules are observed scattered throughout the body and densely packed along the neck. The adoral zone is formed by about 81 external and 24 infundibular paramembranelles. The paroral membrane, formed by a row of long cilia arranged in monolcinetids, extends through a groove in the body to the adhesive disc. Two dorsal kinetids are present along the right body margin and around the neck. The adhesive disc (18 mu m in diameter) lacks cilia in the area above the velum. The velum covers a row of dikinetids bearing long cilia and four dikineties, two or three of which are interrupted on the ventral surface. Nine to twelve macronuclear nodules connected by isthmuses are distributed in the cytoplasm, plus two nodules located in the adhesive disc and between those there is an ovate micronucleus. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier GmbH. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 04/09961-4 - Biodiversity, evolution, endemism and conservation of the Medusozoa from the Southwestern Atlantic |
| Grantee: | Antonio Carlos Marques |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |