Overview
- Summarises the morphology, fauna and ecology of the Amphisiellidae and includes 89 species, distributed in 27 genera
- Featuring more than 240 figures
- Offers thorough up-to-date revision for taxonomists, cell biologists, and ecologists and practitioners
Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae (MOBI, volume 88)
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About this book
This book is the third of six volumes which review the Hypotricha, a major group of the spirotrichous ciliates. It is about the Amphisiellidae, the Trachelostylidae, and some genera of unknown position in the Hypotricha. Further, it comprises supplements to the Oxytrichidae and the Urostyloidea.
The Amphisiellidae are characterised by a more or less distinct ventral file, termed amphisiellid median cirral row. They produce their frontal-ventral-transverse cirri from six anlagen, a feature taken over from the ground pattern of the Hypotricha. Trachelostyla, the eponymous type of the Trachelostylidae, is an 18-cirri hypotrich, which lacks – like the amphisiellids – dorsomarginal kineties. The lack of these kineties indicates that both taxa branch off rather early in the hypotrich tree. The core amphisiellids (e.g., Amphisiella, Spiroamphisiella) and the trachelostylids are confined to marine habitats. By contrast, the other genera reviewed in this volume (e.g., Lamtostyla, Hemisincirra) are mainly terrestrial. A total of 89 species, distributed in 27 genera, are revised in detail, that is, almost all morphological, ontogenetic, faunistic, and ecological data, scattered in almost 600 papers are summarised. With the monographs of the Oxytrichidae, the Urostyloidea, and the Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae the interested scientist can identify more than 410 species of hypotrichs. The treatise offers taxonomists, cell biologists, ecologists, molecular biologists, and practitioners a thorough and up-to-date overview about this highly interesting group of ciliates.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Monograph of the Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)
Authors: Helmut Berger
Series Title: Monographiae Biologicae
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8917-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8916-9Published: 20 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9281-4Published: 29 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8917-6Published: 21 October 2008
Series ISSN: 0077-0639
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1729
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 737