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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Epiclintes

Epiclintes Stein, 1859 (ref. ID; 3690)

[ref. ID; 1618]
Elongate; spoon-shaped; flattened ventral surface with more than two rows of cirri; two marginal rows; frontals undifferentiated; anals; no caudals; salt or fresh water. (ref. ID; 1618)

[ref. ID; 3925]
Epiclintes is a genus of contractile, elongate marine hypotrichs with oblique rows of cirri. Division morphogenesis of a population of E. ambiguus (O.F. Muller, 1786) from Great Bay estuary, New Hampshire, has a developmental pattern superficially unlike that of urostylids. Kerona is a genus with one species, K. polyporum Ehrenberg, 1835, a ciliate ecotocomensal on Hydra. Morphogenesis appears different also from the urostylid pattern and is described elsewhere. Since in addition neither Epiclintes nor Kerona appear to have midventral cirri, they are excluded here, provisionally, from the Urostylidae. Resolution of their taxonomic position lies beyond the scope of this paper. (ref. ID; 3925)
  1. Epiclintes ambiguus (ref. ID; 191)
  2. Epiclintes ambiguus Kahl, 1932 (ref. ID; 2316)
    See; Epiclintes felis (ref. ID; 2316)
  3. Epiclintes ambiguus (O.F. Muller, 1786) (ref. ID; 3119) reported year? (ref. ID; 2117, 3925) or (O.F. Muller) Butschli (ref. ID; 3690)
  4. Epiclintes felis (O.F. Muller, 1786) Carey & Tatchell, 1983 (ref. ID; 2316)
    Syn; Epiclintes ambiguus Kahl, 1932 (ref. ID; 2316)
  5. Epiclintes pluvialis Smith (ref. ID; 1618)

Epiclintes felis (O.F. Muller, 1786) Carey & Tatchell, 1983 (ref. ID; 2316)

Synonym

Epiclintes ambiguus Kahl, 1932 (ref. ID; 2316)

Descriptions

Typically anterior, cylindrical body and elongate tail. (ref. ID; 2316)

Epiclintes pluvialis Smith (ref. ID; 1618)

Descriptions

Fresh water. (ref. ID; 1618)

Measurements

About 375 um long. (ref. ID; 1618)