Amastigomonas mutabilis Molina and Nerad 1991 ...

• Main Author: Lee, Won Je
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Protozoa; Sulcozoa; Thecomonadea; Apusomonadida; Apusomonadidae; Amastigomonas; Amastigomonas mutabilis; Greenland; Molina; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12522289; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12522289

Amastigomonas mutabilis (Griessmann 1913) Molina and Nerad 1991 (Fig. 2u) Observation: Cells are elliptical, 11 to 16 µm long, dorso-ventrally flattened and flexible. There is a flexible sleeve around the base of the anterior flagellum. The anterior flagellum is about 0.5 times the cell length and the same thickness as the posterior one. The recurrent posterior flagellum is slightly longer than the cell and trails under the body, to which it attaches loosely in a slight groove. The nucleus is situated subapically near the right margin of the cell. Some cells have granules along side the recurrent flagellum. Relatively rare than Amastigomonas debruynei. Remarks: This species has synonyms: Rhynchomonas mutabilis and Thecamonas mutabilis. It has been reported from marine sites in Agean Sea (Turkey), Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, France, Greenland, Korea and North Atlantic with lengths of 7–16 µm (Griessmann 1913; Ruinen 1938; Larsen and Patterson 1990; Vørs 1992b, 1993a; Patterson et al. 1993; Patterson ... : Published as part of Lee, Won Je, 2015, Small Free-Living Heterotrophic Flagellates from Marine Sediments of Gippsland Basin, South-Eastern Australia, pp. 53-76 in Acta Protozoologica 54 (1) on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.4467/16890027AP.15.005.2192, http://zenodo.org/record/10994295 ...