Chitonella chesapeakensis
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Chitonella chesapeakensis is a ciliates and the only species of the genus Chitonella and family Chitonellidae . It lives aquatically in cold salt marshes.
description
Chitonella chesapeakensis is small for an eyelash animal and from ovoid to rounded shape. They live motionless, anchored to the ground in a sessile lorica . Somatic kinets are found two to the right and four to the left of the longitudinal axis. Orally there is only one kinete that is circular around the oral cavity.
The macronucleus is centrically heteromeric, a micronucleus is present, as is a contractile vacuole .
Way of life
Chitonella chesapeakensis lives aquatically in cold salt marshes . Nothing is known about their diet.
Systematics
Species, genus and family were first described in 1985 by Eugene B. Small & Denis Lynn on the basis of a single specimen. It has not been found since then. The family belongs to the Cyrtophoria subclass .
proof
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- ↑ a b c d Denis H. Lynn: The Ciliated Protozoa , p. 381, ISBN 978-1-4020-8238-2 , 2010