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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Balantidioides

Balantidioides Kahl, 1930 (ref. ID; 2014), Penard, 1930 (ref. ID; 3540) or Penard, 1930 in Kahl, 1930 (ref. ID; 7673 revision paper)

Class Polyhymenophora: Subclass Spirotricha: Order Heterotrichida: Suborder Heterotrichina (ref. ID; 2014)

Synonym Balantidiopsis Penard, 1922 (ref. ID; 2014, 3540)

[ref. ID; 2014]
Uniformly ciliated ovoid body with narrow peristome lying along left edge of ventral surface and rows of kinetosomes curving obliquely around it. There is an AZM on the left of the peristome but no undulating membrane. The macronucleus is elongate or vermiform and there may be two or many contractile vacuoles which may have satellite vesicles but no canals.
Quote; Colin R. Curds, Michael A. Gates and David McL. Roberts "British and other freshwater ciliated protozoa Part II Ciliophora: Oligohymenophora and Polyhymenophora" Cambridge University Press, 1983 (ref. ID; 2014)

  1. Balantidioides bivacuolata Kahl, 1932 (ref. ID; 3593) reported author and year? (ref. ID; 1621)
  2. Balantidioides dragescoi W. Foissner, Adam & I. Foissner, 1982 (ref. ID; 7673 redescribed paper)
  3. Balantidioides muscicola Penard, 1922 (ref. ID; 1335, 1619, 1621, 3540)