Ciliates from eutrophized water in the northern Brazil and morphology of Cristigera hammeri Wilbert, 1986 (Ciliophora,Scuticociliatia) |
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| Institution: | 1. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular “Francisco Mauro Salzano”, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil;2. División Invertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina;3. Biologisches Institut - Abteilung Zoologie, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;1. Ookusa Animal Clinic, Ookusa 503, Matsue, Shimane 690-0032, Japan;2. Department of Parasitology, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Musashino, Tokyo 180-8602, Japan;1. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, Mlynská dolina B-1, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic;2. FB Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Salzburg University, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria;1. Department of Biological Science, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 680-749, South Korea;2. Department of Zoology, Comenius University, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia;1. Universität Salzburg, FB Organismische Biologie, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria;2. Inha University, Biological Sciences, 402-251 Incheon, South Korea;3. Universität Kaiserslautern, FB Biologie, Erwin-Schrödingerstrasse 14, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany;1. Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;2. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China;3. School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China;4. Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia;1. Laboratory of Protozoology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, College of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;2. Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;3. Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia |
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| Abstract: | Ciliates occur in all major aquatic and soil environments worldwide and are important links in the microbial food webs, which, along with other free-living protists, are generally overlooked in biodiversity conservation programs. In Brazil, the northern region comprises the Brazilian Amazonia, an area widely known for its huge biodiversity. However, the diversity of ciliates in that region is still almost unknown. As result of the present study, a total of 21 species of ciliates, distributed among 15 genera, were inventoried from samples of eutrophized water collected in the city of Belém, capital of the state of Pará, one of the states which comprise the Brazilian Amazonia. In addition, a local population of the rare scuticociliate Cristigera hammeri is described from optical and electron microscopy observations, and its synonymy with C. pleuronemoides is rejected based on new evidence. |
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| Keywords: | Amazonia Oligohymenophorea Synonymy Systematics Taxonomy |
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