Brooklynella Lom & Nigrelli, 1970

Gong, Jun & Song, Weibo, 2006, Description of a new marine cyrtophorid ciliate, Brooklynella sinensis n. sp. from the China Sea with a new definition of the genus Brooklynella (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Cyrtophorida), Zootaxa 1113, pp. 41-49 : 42

Genus Brooklynella Lom & Nigrelli, 1970

Although the type species Brooklynella hostilis has been characterized in detail ( Lom & Nigrelli 1970), the genus, in our opinion, has not been clearly circumscribed. Based on the data available, an improved definition of the genus is here supplied.

Improved diagnosis for Brooklynella : Hartmannulidae with a definitive podite, of which the base is located at posterior ventral portion of cell, but not surrounded by somatic kineties; postoral and left kineties considerably shorter than right kineties, terminate at about the same level of post­equator rather than progressively posteriorly shortened.