Clevelandella ananiasi, Kotyk & Bourland & Soviš & Méndez-Sánchez & Škaloud & Varadínová & Čepička, 2024

Kotyk, Michael, Bourland, William A., Soviš, Matyáš, Méndez-Sánchez, Daniel, Škaloud, Pavel, Varadínová, Zuzana Kotyková & Čepička, Ivan, 2024, Morphology maưers: congruence of morphology and phylogeny in the integrative taxonomy of Clevelandellidae (Ciliophora: Armophorea) with description of six new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202 (1), pp. 1-51 : 47-48

Clevelandella ananiasi sp.nov.

ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:693D96F5-0E81-4648-BE2B-F5AC52FD31CB .

Diagnosis: Spade-shaped, dorsoventrally flattened Clevelandella with average length in protargol preparations 55 µm, mean 23 adoral membranelles, posterior protrusion of left lobe of anterior body part overhanging no more than one-fifth of peristomial projection, and with teardrop-shaped or ellipsoidal macronucleus.

Etymology: Named in honour of Mr Ananias Kamam, our collaborator from Papua New Guinea.

Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Wanang 3, S5.228, E145.080 .

Type host: Ancaudellia serratissima serratissima (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865).

Type material: A protargol-impregnated holotype cell ( Fig. 4D , E) marked in a black circle on a slide deposited in the collection of the National Museum of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, inventory number P6E 5431 .

Figures

Figure 4. Clevelandella ananiasi sp. nov. from ASS. In vivo (A, B) and after protargol impregnation (C–G). A, ventral view showing karyophore (white arrowhead), contractile vacuole (asterisk), posterior extent of somatic cilia (black arrowhead), and cilia of circumperistomial kineties (black arrow). B, ventral view showing a more slender macronucleus, karyophore (white arrowhead), contractile vacuole (asterisk), and adoral membranelles (black arrowhead).C, ventral view showing excretory (black arrow). D, ventral infraciliature.E, dorsal infraciliature of same cell as (D). F, detail view of peristomial projection showing the peristomial overture (black arrowhead) and cilia of the circumperistomial kineties (white arrowheads).G, detail view showing position of micronucleus (white arrow). Ma, macronucleus. Scale bars:20 µm (A–C), 10 µm (D–F), 5 µm (G).