Bodo designis Skuja 1948

• Main Author: Patterson, Won Je Lee David J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2000
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Protozoa; Euglenozoa; Kinetoplastea; Bodonida; Bodonidae; Bodo; Bodo designis; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Greenland; Botany Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5281687; https://zenodo.org/record/5281687

Bodo designis Skuja, 1948 (®gures 1h, 2m) Description. Cell outline usually elliptical, 4±7 Mm long, 2±4 Mm wide. With two unequal ¯agella emerging from a subapical pocket. Cells are ¯exible. The anterior ¯agellum is about the length of the cell or slightly shorter and curves back over the rostrum. The anterior ¯agellum wraps around the anterior part of the cell and the mouth is pressed against food particles when the cell is feeding. The acronematic posterior ¯agellum is about 2±4 times the length of the cell and has a sinuous pro®le in swimming cells. Cells rotate around their longitudinal axes when swimming. The nucleus is located near the middle of the cell. Common. Remarks. Cell length was previously reported to be from 7 to 15 Mm. This species has been reported from marine sites in Antarctica, North Atlantic, subtropical and tropical Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Fiji, Gulf of Finland, Greenland, Hawaii, and Panama (Larsen and Patterson, 1990; Vùrs, 1992a, 1992b, 1993a; Patterson et al ., 1993; Ekebom et al ., 1996; Patterson and Simpson, 1996; Tong, 1997a; Tong et al ., 1997, 1998). Generally, our observations are consistent with those of previous authors. Bodo designis has also been found in several freshwater sites. It appears to be cosmopolitan. Sometimes, this species occurs in large numbers. It has been characterized by the rotating behaviour of swimming cells, but B. cygnus reported by Patterson and Simpson (1996) and B. platyrhynchu s also have a rotating swimming movement. Bodo designis sometimes co-occurs with B. cygnus , but B. cygnus can be distinguished because it has a spiral groove. : Published as part of Patterson, Won Je Lee David J., 2000, Heterotrophic ¯ agellates (Protista) from marine sediments of Botany Bay, Australia, pp. 483-562 in Journal of Natural History 34 on page 491 : {"references": ["SKUJA, H., 1948, Taxonomie des Phytoplanktons einiger Seen in Uppland, Schweden, Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses, 9, 5 \u00b1 399.", "LARSEN, J. and PATTERSON, D. J., 1990, Some \u00af agellates (Protista) from tropical marine sediments, Journal of Natural History, 24, 801 \u00b1 937.", "PATTERSON, D. J., NYGAARD, K., STEINBERG, G. and TURLEY, C., 1993, Heterotrophic \u00af agellates and other protists associated with oceanic detritus throughout the water column in the mid North Atlantic, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 73, 67 \u00b1 95.", "EKEBOM, J., PATTERSON, D. J. and VORS, N., 1996, Heterotrophic \u00af agellates from coral reef sediments (Great Barrier Reef, Australia), Archiv fuEr Protistenkunde, 146, 251 \u00b1 272.", "PATTERSON, D. J. and SIMPSON, A. G. B., 1996, Heterotrophic \u00af agellates from coastal marine and hypersaline sediments in Western Australia, European Journal of Protistology, 32, 423 \u00b1 448.", "TONG, S. M., 1997 a, Heterotrophic \u00af agellates from the water column in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Marine Biology, 128, 517 \u00b1 536.", "TONG, S. M., VORS, N. and PATTERSON, D. J., 1997, Heterotrophic \u00af agellates, centrohelid heliozoa and \u00ae lose amoebae from marine and freshwater sites in the Antarctic, Polar Biology, 18, 91 \u00b1 106.", "TONG, S. M., NYGAARD, K., BERNARD, C., VORS, N. and PATTERSON, D. J., 1998, Heterotrophic \u00af agellates from the water column in Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia, European Journal of Protistology, 34, 162 \u00b1 194."]}