Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole: Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
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Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole: Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
Protozoa -- Massachusetts -- Woods Hole; United States Fisheries Biological Station at Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Codonosiga botrytis (Ehr. sp.) Jas. Clark '67. Fig. 12.
Francé gives the following synonyms: _Epistylia botrytis_ Ehr.;
_E. digitalis_ Stein, _Zoothamnium parasitica_ Stein; _Anthophysa
solitaria_ Fresenius; _Codonosiga pulcherrima_ Jas. Clark; _Monosiga
gracilis_ S. Kent; _M. globulosa_ S. Kent; _Codonosiga pyriformis_
Kent; _C. grossularia_ Kent; (Francé).
The individuals are small and provided with a long unbranched, or
terminal, simply split stalk. The individuals are single or colonial.
The Woods Hole form measured 22µ over all; the body was 5µ, the
collar 3µ, and the stalk 14µ. No colonies were seen, and only a few
individuals upon red algæ.
[Illustration: Fig. 12.--_Codonosiga botrytis_.]
Genus BODO (Ehr.) Stein.
(Stein '59, Bütschli '83; Klebs '92; Senn 1900.)
The body is naked, usually amoeboid in its changes, and provided with
two flagella, one of which is usually trailed along under and behind
the animal. The anterior end is usually pointed, with the flagella
arising from a minute depression; the posterior end is rounded.
Specific characters very difficult to analyze. Fresh and salt water.
Bodo globosus Stein. Fig. 13.
The body during movement is globular or ovoid, without any anterior
process. The trailing flagellum is invariably much longer than the
vibratory one. The contractile vacuole lies in the anterior half of
the body. Solid food particles are taken in near base of flagella.
Length of body 9 to 12µ; diameter 8 to 11µ. Common.
[Illustration: Fig. 13.--_Bodo globosus_.]
Bodo caudatus (Duj.) Stein. Fig. 14.
Synonyms: _Amphimonas caudatus_ Duj.; _Diptomastix caudata_ Kent.
The body is variable in shape, but usually flattened and pointed
posteriorly. An anterior process is almost always present, and
below this the flagella are inserted in a minute depression. The
contractile vacuole is close to the base of the flagella. The
flagella are about the same size, the anterior one usually somewhat
longer. Common. Length 12 to 18µ.
This species was seen by Peck '95 and described as a small
flagellate.
[Illustration: Fig. 14.--_Bodo caudatus_.]
Genus OXYRRHIS Duj.
(Kent '81; Bütschli '86; Klebs '92; Senn 1900.)
Medium-sized forms, somewhat oval in shape, with a rounded posterior
end. The anterior end is continued dorsally in a somewhat attenuate
pointed process. At the base of this process is a large cavity or
funnel, on the dorsal wall of which, or on a projection from this
wall, are two equal-size flagella. When at rest, the flagella are
directed backwards. The nucleus is central. In moving, the posterior
end is invariably in advance. This genus is exceptional among
Mastigophora in that division is transverse instead of longitudinal.
Oxyrrhis marina Duj. Fig. 15.
With the characters of the genus. Contractile vacuole not seen.
Length 28 to 40µ.
[Illustration: Fig. 15.--_Oxyrrhis marina_.]
Genus ASTASIA Ehr.
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