Zosterodasys

• Main Authors: Vďačný, Peter, Tirjaková, Eva
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Protozoa; Ciliophora; Nassophorea; Synhymeniida; Orthodonellidae; Zosterodasys; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5630261; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5630261

Key to Zosterodasys species (Figs 2 and 3) 1 In marine or brackish environments (e.g., sea, estuaries or sea ice). 2 - In freshwater environments (e.g., puddles, benthos and periphyton of ponds or rivers). 8 2 Posterior body end tail-like. Z. caudatus - Posterior end tapering, narrowly or broadly rounded. 3 3 Three contractile vacuoles arranged in a row near right body margin. Z. acutus - Other contractile vacuole pattern. 4 4 Usually 3 conspicuously large micronuclei (4–10 µm across); synhymenium completely encircles body; ventral kineties form a Published as part of Vďačný, Peter & Tirjaková, Eva, 2012, Taxonomic revision of the ciliate genus Zosterodasys Deroux, 1978 (Protista: Ciliophora: Synhymeniida), pp. 34-58 in Zootaxa 3345 on page 41, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.281497