Euplotoides patella (Muller, 1773) Borror & Hill 1995

• Main Authors: Tirjaková, Eva, Botlíková, Simona, Vďačný, Peter
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• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Protozoa; Ciliophora; Hypotrichea; Euplotida; Gastrocirrhidae; Euplotoides; Euplotoides patella; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6101501; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C1879B831BFF39FF7A3CF3CE3AFCE5

Euplotoides patella (Müller, 1773) Borror & Hill, 1995 (Figs 3 B and C; Table 3) This is one of the most common species of the family Euplotidae. Originally, it was described under the name Trichoda patella by Müller (1773). Later, Müller (1786) transferred it to the genus Kerona and Ehrenberg (1838) to the genus Euplotes . Dujardin (1841) combined this species with the genus Ploesconia , which was not recognized by Kahl (1932) who additionally distinguished several forms of E. patella : typicus , latus , alatus , planctonicus and variabilis . This division was criticized by Pierson (1943) who considered the latter form as a variety of E. eurystomus . Finally, Tuffrau (1960) added information on the silverline pattern and Borror & Hill (1995) transferred patella to the genus Euplotoides . Euplotoides patella is a cosmopolitanously distributed, mesosaprobic species dwelling, especially, in limnetic habitats such as ponds, lakes, swamps and rivers. Further, it occurs in organic debris and periphyton, and was reported also from brackish and salt waters. As yet, E. patella was reported from Europe, Africa, North and South America, Asia, New Zealand and Antarctis (for review, see Foissner et al. 1991). In Slovakia, E. patella is the most common freshwater species of the family. It was recorded at many localities: in the Bebrava river (Hanuška 1962); in the periphyton near the shore of ponds in the village of Tomky, W Slovakia (Matis 1973); in the Blahut kanál channel in Jurský Šúr near the town of Bratislava (Matis 1975); in wet mosses from Slovenský raj (Slovak Paradise) (Tirjaková & Matis 1987); in a thermal stream and ponds at a temperature of 46.5 ºC in the Bojnice Spa (Matis & Straková-Striešková 1991); in backwaters of the Danube near Čičov (Matis & Tirjaková 1992); in the river system of the Danube (Tirjaková 1992a; Szentivány & Tirjaková 1994; Matis & Tirjaková 1995); in the Rojkovské rašelinisko peatbog (Tirjaková 1992b); in the Turiec river (Tirjaková 1993; Krno et al. 1996); in ...