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Christian F. Bardele, Wilhelm Foissner, and Richard L. Blanton; Morphology, Morphogenesis and Systematic Position of the Sorocarp Forming Ciliate Sorogena stoianovitchae Bradbury & Olive, 1980. J.Protozool. 38(1):7-17, 1991
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Reinvestigation of the type population of the sorocarp-forming ciliate Sorogena stoianovitchae Bradbury & Olive, 1980 using the Fernandez-Galiano technique and various electron-microscopy techniques (scanning electron microscopy, freeze-fracture and ultrathin sections) expands the observations reported in the original description of the species. Sorogoena stoianovitchae is a colpodid ciliate with oral ciliature consisting of 25 ciliated dikinetids on the right and 3-5 small adoral organelles on the left of an elongated and domes oral slit, resembling that of the genus Platyophrya. Sorogena stoianovitchae divides in the free swimming condition and not in a division cyst, as is the case in the colpodids sensu stricto (s. str.), e.g. Colpoda, Bresslaua, or Tillina. As shown in a detailed light-microscopy study, morphogenesis in S. stoianovitchae is of the stomatic mode typical for certain colpodid ciliates. Based on the wealth of new information the phylogenetic position of S. stoianovitchae is discussed at some length and arguments are given in favor of the following classifications: S. stoianovitchae Bradbury & Olive, 1980 currently sole member of the family Sorogenidae Bradbury & Olive, 1980; order Sorogenida Foissner, 1985; subclass Colpodia Foissner, 1985; class Colpodea Small & Lynn, 1981. This investigation facilitates the discovery of further members of this genus reported primarily from the tropical and subtropical zone.