Monograph
of the Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae
(Ciliophora, Hypotricha) |
by
Helmut
Berger
Technisches
Büro für Ökologie
Consulting Engineering Office for Ecology
Radetzkystrasse 10, 5020 Salzburg, Austria, http://www.protozoology.com
and
University of Salzburg
Department of Organismal Biology
Salzburg, Austria
Published
by
Springer
P.O.
Box 17, 3300 A.A. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, http://www.springer.com
Acknowledgments
Supported by the Austrian
Academy of Sciences (APART-Project)
and the Stiftungs-
und Förderungsgesellschaft der Paris-Lodron-Universität
Salzburg
About this book
This book is the third of six volumes which review the Hypotricha,
a major group of the spirotrichous ciliates. It is about the
Amphisiellidae, the Trachelostylidae, and some genera of unknown
position in the Hypotricha. Further, it comprises supplements
to the Oxytrichidae and the Urostyloidea.
The Amphisiellidae are characterised
by a more or less distinct ventral file, termed amphisiellid
median cirral row. They produce their frontal-ventral-transverse
cirri from six anlagen, a feature taken over from the ground
pattern of the Hypotricha. Trachelostyla, the eponymous
type of the Trachelostylidae, is an 18-cirri hypotrich, which
lacks – like the amphisiellids – dorsomarginal kineties.
The lack of these kineties indicates that both taxa branch off
rather early in the hypotrich tree. The core amphisiellids (e.g.,
Amphisiella, Spiroamphisiella) and the trachelostylids
are confined to marine habitats. By contrast, the other genera
reviewed in this volume (e.g., Lamtostyla, Hemisincirra)
are mainly terrestrial. A total of 89 species, distributed in
27 genera, are revised in detail, that is, almost all morphological,
ontogenetic, faunistic, and ecological data, scattered in almost
600 papers are summarised. With the monographs of the Oxytrichidae,
the Urostyloidea, and the Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae
the interested scientist can identify more than 410 species of
hypotrichs. The treatise offers taxonomists, cell biologists,
ecologists, molecular biologists, and practitioners a thorough
and up-to-date overview about this highly interesting group of
ciliates.
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Keywords: Apomorphy, Asia, Austria,
Bestimmung, bibliography, biogeography, Biogeographie, Boden,
cell, China, conjugation, contractile vacuole, cultivation, cytoplas,
cortex, colouring, cytopyge, cyst, determination, diversity,
Diversität, division, Dorsomarginalia, ecology, evolution,
Europe, ground patter, Grundmustter, guide, ICZN, identification,
Identifikation, index, key, life cycle, Limnologie, limnology,
literature, macronucleus, Makronucleus, marine, Meer, micronucleus,
Mikronucleus, Morphogenese, morphogenesis, movement, nomenclature,
Nomenklatur, ontogenesis, Ontogenese, oral apparatus, Perilemma,
Plesiomorphy, Phylogenie, phylogeny, regeneration, reorganisation,
review, revision, Schlüssel, science, soil, silver line
system, species concept, systematik, systematics, taxonomy, Taxonomie,
Teilung, world, Zell Teilung, Zyste
Taxa included: Amphisiella, Spiroamphisiella, Maregastrostyla,
Caudiamphisiella, Bistichella, Perilemmaphora, Lamtostylides,
Metastrongylidium, Lamtostyla, Uroleptoides, Hemiamphisiella,
Paramphisiella, Afroamphisiella, Cossothigma, Hemisincirra, Mucotrichidium,
Terricirra, Tetrastyla, Trachelostyla, Spirotrachelostyla, Apourosomoida,
Nudiamphisiella, Erimophrya, Vermioxytricha, Hemiurosoma, Anteholosticha,
Urostyloidea, Oxytrichidae, Amphisiellides, Pseudouroleptus,
Ponturostyla; Protogastrostyla, ciliates, hypotrichs, Hypotrichia,
Hypotrichida, Stichotrichia, Stichotrichida, stichotrichs, Spirotricha,
spirotrichs, Alveolata
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Berger Helmut, Consulting Engineering Office for Ecology, Radetzkystrasse
10, 5020 Salzburg, Austria; http://www.protozoology.com
Last update: 2011.09.22 |
