Monograph of the Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)
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 m
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Monograph of the Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) by HELMUT BERGER Consulting Engineering Office for Ecology Salzburg, Austria and University of Salzburg Department of Organismal Biology Salzburg, Austria
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Helmut Berger Consulting Engineering Office for Ecology Radetzkystrasse 10 5020 Salzburg Austria and Department of Organismal Biology University of Salzburg Hellbrunnerstrasse 34 5020 Salzburg Austria [email protected]
ISSN 0077-0639 ISBN 978-94-007-0454-1 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0455-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0455-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York © Springer Science +Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover illustration: © 2010 JupiterImages Corporation Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedication This book is dedicated to my friend and colleague Weibo Song from the Ocean University of China (OUC; Qingdao, China). Weibo made the OUC to an acknowledged centre of ciliate taxonomy and is author of many important works on the systematics of hypotrichs, especially from marine habitats.
Preface The present book is part four of the Monograph of the Hypotricha, a series which reviews in great detail this highly interesting group of spirotrichous ciliates. The monograph is the most extensive revision since Kahl (1932), which is still an important treatise. The series will comprise six volumes. The first volume is about the oxytrichids, a group which was considered for a long time as monophyletic because of the rather stable pattern of 18 frontal-ventraltransverse cirri (Berger & Foissner 199
