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Stammeridium

Stammeridium Wenzel, 1969 (ref. ID; 2013)

Class Kinetofragminophora: Subclass Hypostomata: Order Nassulida: Suborder Microthoracina (ref. ID; 2013)

Synonym Stammeriella Wenzel, 1953 (ref. ID; 2013)
See Trochiliopsis

[ref. ID; 2013]
Body outline shape elongate oval with notches and projections at each end. Rigid body, laterally compressed. Somatic ciliature reduced to few (about 12) long cilia at either end of the cell, cilia borne only upon right-hand surface excepts for the single ventral cilium. Cytopharynx supported by trichites, oral aperture opens at end of an anteriorly situated ventral projection which is the major generic feature. Below the oral aperture there is a line of fine cilia. The left side of the body is deeply furrowed longitudinally. There are 2 contractile vacuoles. The spherical macronucleus is centrally situated with an adjacent micronucleus.
Quote; Colin R. Curds "British and other freshwater ciliated protozoa Part I Ciliophora: Kinetofragminophora" Cambridge University Press, 1982 (ref. ID; 2013)
  1. Stammeridium kahli (Wenzel, 1953) Wenzel, 1969 (ref. ID; 4861) reported author and year? (ref. ID; 1601)

Stammeridium kahli (Wenzel, 1953) Wenzel, 1969 (ref. ID; 4861) reported author and year? (ref. ID; 1601)

Descriptions

Preoral kineties apically in furrows, apex distinctly serrated, paroral membrane shorter than a third of body running obliquely to the longitudinal axis. (ref. ID; 1601)