Prototapirella ciliates from wild habituated Virunga mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Rwanda with the descriptions of two new species

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• 作者：Akira Ito^a ; ^{pecora@mable.ne.jp" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Winnie Eckardt^b ; ^c ; Tara S. Stoinski^b ; Thomas R. Gillespie^c ; Toshihiro Tokiwa^d
• 关键词：Apes ; Infraciliature ; Prototapirella fosseyi n. sp. ; Prototapirella gorillae Imai ; Ikeda ; Collet & Bonhomme ; 1991 ; Prototapirella rwanda n. sp.
• 刊名：European Journal of Protistology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：54
• 期：Complete
• 页码：47-58
• 全文大小：1856 K

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The morphology of Prototapirella fosseyi n. sp., P. rwanda n. sp. and P. gorillae <span id="bbib0075">Imai, Ikeda, Collet, and Bonhomme, 1991span> in the Entodiniomorphida were described from the mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei, in Rwanda. The ciliates have a retractable adoral ciliary zone, four non-retractable ciliary tufts in four caudalia, and one broad skeletal plate beneath the body surface. P. rwanda has a dorsal lobe and ventral lobes in two rows whereas P. fosseyi has no lobes. These two new species have an elongated body, a flat tail flap leaning to the ventral, a macronucleus with a tapering anterior end, a round posterior end and a shallow depression on the dorsal side, a micronucleus lying near the anterior end of macronucleus, a thin left region of the skeletal plate, a distinct skeletal rod plate, and four contractile vacuoles. P. gorillae has some variations in the nuclei and the skeletal plate. The infraciliary bands of three Prototapirella species were the same as some Triplumaria species; a C-shaped adoral polybrachykinety, a slender perivestibular polybrachykinety, and paralabial kineties in their retractable adoral ciliary zone and short lateral polybrachykineties in their four caudalia. The perivestibular polybrachykinety is joined only to the right end of adoral polybrachykinety.