Difflugia mulanensis nov spec., a freshwater testate amoeba from Lake Mulan, China | |
Yang, J; Meisterfeld, R; Zhang, WJ; Shen, YF; Shen, YF, Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Lab Protozoan Taxonomy & Ecol, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China | |
2005-11-01 | |
Source Publication | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY
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ISSN | 0932-4739 |
Volume | 41Issue:4Pages:269-276 |
Abstract | Testate amoebae are an important and abundant component of aquatic ecosystems. Our knowledge of their distribution and the species inventory in Asia is still limited. This paper describes a new planktonic Difflugia from Lake Mulan, province of Hubei, China. These findings are of taxonomic, as well as biogeographic significance because Difflugia mulanensis nov. spec. is a rare and perhaps the only locally distributed member of the well-known urceolate division within this most species-rich genus of lobose testate amoebae. We have studied its morphology and biometry with light and scanning electron microscopical methods. D. mulanensis differs from related species by its very large wide funnel-shaped apertural collar which normally exceeds the width of the test, a relatively long neck, its rounded apical end and the presence of only one nucleus. All shell parameters are normally distributed with low variability. Only the collar height is more variable. This shows that D. mulanensis is a size-monomorphic species. (c) 2005 Elsevier GrnbH. All rights reserved.; Testate amoebae are an important and abundant component of aquatic ecosystems. Our knowledge of their distribution and the species inventory in Asia is still limited. This paper describes a new planktonic Difflugia from Lake Mulan, province of Hubei, China. These findings are of taxonomic, as well as biogeographic significance because Difflugia mulanensis nov. spec. is a rare and perhaps the only locally distributed member of the well-known urceolate division within this most species-rich genus of lobose testate amoebae. We have studied its morphology and biometry with light and scanning electron microscopical methods. D. mulanensis differs from related species by its very large wide funnel-shaped apertural collar which normally exceeds the width of the test, a relatively long neck, its rounded apical end and the presence of only one nucleus. All shell parameters are normally distributed with low variability. Only the collar height is more variable. This shows that D. mulanensis is a size-monomorphic species. (c) 2005 Elsevier GrnbH. All rights reserved. |
Subtype | Article |
Keyword | Testate Amoeba Arcellinida Difflugia Mulanensis Nov Spec. Morphology Biometry Plankton China |
Department | Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Lab Protozoan Taxonomy & Ecol, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China; Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Sch, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China; Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Biol 2, D-52056 Aachen, Germany |
Subject Area | Microbiology |
DOI | 10.1016/j.ejop.2005.05.006 |
WOS Headings | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
Indexed By | SCI |
Language | 英语 |
WOS Research Area | Microbiology |
WOS Subject | Microbiology |
WOS ID | WOS:000234469200004 |
WOS Keyword | RHIZOPODA ; PROTOZOA |
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Document Type | 期刊论文 |
Identifier | http://ir.ihb.ac.cn/handle/152342/9064 |
Collection | 期刊论文 |
Corresponding Author | Shen, YF, Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Lab Protozoan Taxonomy & Ecol, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China |
Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Lab Protozoan Taxonomy & Ecol, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Sch, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China 3.Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Biol 2, D-52056 Aachen, Germany |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Yang, J,Meisterfeld, R,Zhang, WJ,et al. Difflugia mulanensis nov spec., a freshwater testate amoeba from Lake Mulan, China[J]. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY,2005,41(4):269-276. |
APA | Yang, J,Meisterfeld, R,Zhang, WJ,Shen, YF,&Shen, YF, Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Lab Protozoan Taxonomy & Ecol, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China.(2005).Difflugia mulanensis nov spec., a freshwater testate amoeba from Lake Mulan, China.EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY,41(4),269-276. |
MLA | Yang, J,et al."Difflugia mulanensis nov spec., a freshwater testate amoeba from Lake Mulan, China".EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY 41.4(2005):269-276. |
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