Overview
- Summarises the morphology, fauna and ecology of the Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae
- Including 68 species distributed in 21 genera and revised subgenera
- Featuring more than 270 figures
- Offers thorough up-to-date revision for taxonomists, cell biologists, and ecologists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae (MOBI, volume 90)
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About this book
The present monograph is the fourth of six volumes which review the Hypotricha, a major group of the spirotrichs. The book is about the Gonostomatidae, the Kahliellidae, and some taxa of unknown position in the hypotrichs.
Gonostomum was previously misclassified in the Oxytrichidae because its type species Gonostomum affine has basically an 18-cirri pattern, which is dominant in the oxytrichids. A new hypothesis, considering also molecular data, postulates that this 18-cirri pattern evolved in the last common ancestor of the hypotrichs and therefore it appears throughout the Hypotricha tree. The simple dorsal kinety pattern, composed of only three bipolar dorsal kineties, and gene sequence analyses strongly suggest that Gonostomum branches off rather early in the phylogenetic tree. Thus, the Gonostomatidae, previously synonymised with the oxytrichids, are reactivated to include the name-bearing type genus and other genera (e.g., Paragonostomum, Wallackia, Cladotricha) which have the characteristic gonostomatid oral apparatus. The Kahliellidae are a rather vague group mainly defined via the preservation of parts of the parental infraciliature. The kahliellids preliminary comprise, besides the name-bearing type genus Kahliella, genera such as Parakahliella and its African pendant Afrokahliella or the monotypic Engelmanniella. In total 68 species distributed in 21 genera and subgenera are revised. As in the previous volumes almost all morphological, morphogenetic, molecular, faunistic, and ecological data, scattered in almost 700 papers, are compiled so that the four volumes (Oxytrichidae, Urostyloidea, Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae, Gonostomatidae and Kahliellida) provide a detailed insight into the biology of almost 500 species of hypotrichs. The series is an up-to-dateoverview about this highly interesting taxon of spirotrichous ciliates mainly addressed to taxonomists, cell biologists, ecologists, molecular biologists, and practitioners.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Monograph of the Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)
Authors: Helmut Berger
Series Title: Monographiae Biologicae
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0455-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0454-1Published: 11 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3492-0Published: 25 February 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0455-8Published: 06 January 2011
Series ISSN: 0077-0639
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1729
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 742
Topics: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Biodiversity, Developmental Biology, Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology