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Jun Gong and Weibo Song; Description of a new marine cyrtophorid ciliate, Dysteria derouxi nov. spec., with an updated key to 12 well-investigated Dysteria species (Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida). Europ.J.Protistol. 40:13-19, 2004
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The morphology of living cells and the infraciliature of a new marine cyrtophorid ciliate, Dysteria derouxi nov. spec., collected from the coastal area of Qingdao, China, have been investigated. This species is characterized by: size about 100x40 µm in vivo, body rectangular in outline; 8 ventral kineties in the right field, of which the right-most 3 extend dorso-apically; 6-9 short kineties in the left equatorial field; two ventral contractile vacuoles; and marine habitat. Based on the data of morphology and infraciliature, an updated key to 12 Dysteria species is supplied.