Ref ID : 7452
Jose Luis Olmo, Carmen Tellez, and Genoveva F. Esteban; Cinetozona pyriformis n. g., n. sp.: A relative of the Ciliate Genera Urozona and Cinetochilum (Ciliophora, Scuticociliatida). J.Eukaryot.Microbiol. 45(4):448-451, 1998
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Cinetozona pyriformis n. g., n. sp. is a very small scuticociliate recently found in a freshwater artificial pond in Madrid, Spain. This new ciliate is here described using silver impregnation techniques. C. pyriformis bears a girdle or cilia near the equator of the cell, similar to the genus Urozona Schewiakoff, 1889, while the oral structures resemble those in the genus Cinetochilum Perty, 1852. The ciliate's systematic position is discussed, and its inclusion in the family Cinetochilidae is proposed.