This paper describes five species of freshwater suctorid ciliates, which were collected from the Dongting Lake in Yueyang City, Hunan Province in May 2004 and a ditch of Moshui Lake in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, Sep. 2005. All species are first records to China: Discophrya cothurnata (Weisse, 1847-48) Lachmann, 1859; Discophrya robusta Nozawa, 1938; Metacineta macrocaulis (Stokes, 1887) Matthes, 1954; Heliophrya rotunda (Hentschel, 1916) Matthes, 1954; Tokophrya bengalensis Ghosh, 1929. Based on the morphological characteristics, all species mentioned above were observed in vivo and using light microscopical method.
Wu Li; Feng Wei-Song; Chen Xiang-Rui; Shen Yun-Fen.Descriptions of five species of suctorid ciliate protozoa first recorded in Chinese freshwater (Ciliophora, Kinetofragminophora, Suctorida),Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica,2006,31(2):311-316
