Abstract

A new hymenostomatid ciliate, Anteglaucoma orientalis n. sp., isolated from a freshwater pond in Harbin, northeastern China, was investigated using live observation and silver staining methods. Anteglaucoma orientalis is characterized as follows: size in vivo about 50–60 × 30–35 μm; oval body shape; buccal area occupies about 25% of body length; 28–36 somatic kineties; membranelle 1 having six or seven basal body rows, membranelle 2 five to seven rows, and membranelle 3 three rows; single macronucleus with one micronucleus attached. Morphogenesis of the genus Anteglaucoma is revealed for the first time. The main events during binary fission are as follows: morphogenesis begins with proliferation of kinetosomes in the middle part of postoral kinety 1, and kinetosomes of this primordial field multiply and organize to finally form the paroral membrane and membranelles 1–3 of the opisthe; the parental apparatus in the proter does not take part in the stomatogenetic process. Phylogenetic analyses based on SSU rRNA gene sequences show that Anteglaucoma orientalis n. sp. clusters with the type species, A. harbinensis Pan et al., 2017, with full support.

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