Clevelandella hromadkai, 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 : 48

Clevelandella hromadkai sp.nov.

ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EB15F99F-FD7D-49F0-9F63-6771F3697429 .

Diagnosis: Dorsoventrally not flattened Clevelandella of cultriform shape, body proper curved in dorsal direction, with prominent left lobe and peristomial projection merging gradually with body proper. Average length in protargol preparations 127 µm in short form and 215 µm in long form.

Etymology: Named in honour of remarkable Czech cockroach enthusiast Mr Jiří Hromádka.

Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Wanang 3, N5.228, E145.080 .

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

Type material: A protargol-impregnated holotype cell ( Fig. 9D ) 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 5364 .

Figures

Figure 9. Clevelandella hromadkai sp. nov. short morph: from life (A–C, F–H) and after protargol impregnation (D, E, I). From ASS.A, left ventrolateral view showing micronucleus (white arrow), adoral membranelles (black arrow), and the posterior extent of ciliation on the right (black arrowhead) and left (white arrow head) margins. B, ventral view, (optical section) showing the cytostome (white arrowhead), contractile vacuole (black arrow) and margin of the peristomial overture (black arrowhead).C, left lateral view showing collecting vesicles of the contractile vacuole (white arrowheads), the micronucleus (white arrow) and the margin of the peristomial overture (black arrowhead).D,