Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Protozool. 2008;47(4):317–52.

Table 1.

Ciliate species found in six soil samples from Saudi Arabia. For authors and dates of species, see Foissner (1998) and Foissner et al. (2002)

Species Sites
1 2 3 4 5 6
Acaryophrya collaris +
Acropisthium mutabile +
Amphisiella australis + +
Amphisiella elegans +
Amphisiella magnigranulosa +
Apertospathula verruculifera +
Apocyclidium obliquum + + +
Apospathidium longicaudatum + + +
Arcuospathidium lionotiforme +
Arcuospathidium muscorum muscorum + +
Arcuospathidium namibiense tristicha +
Armatospathula periarmata +
Blepharisma hyalinum +
Blepharisma steinii + +
Cinetochilum margaritaceum +
Circinella filiformis + +
Clavoplites edaphicus +
Colpoda aspera + + + + +
Colpoda cucullus + + + + + +
Colpoda edaphoni +
Colpoda formisanoi +
Colpoda henneguyi +
Colpoda inflata + + + + + +
Colpoda magna +
Colpoda maupasi + + + + + +
Colpoda steinii + + + + + +
Colpodidium (Colpodidium) trichocystiferum + +
Condylostomides trinucleatus +
Cyrtohymena citrina + +
Cyrtolophosis muscicola +
Dileptus mucronatus +
Dileptus visscheri +
Drepanomonas pauciciliata +
Drepanomonas sphagni +
Enchelyodon alqasabi nov. spec. +
Enchelyodon armatides +
Enchelyodon nodosus +
Enchelys geleii +
Enchelys polynucleata +
Epispathidium ascendens +
Epispathidium polynucleatum +
Erimophyra monostyla nov. spec. + + +
Euplotopsis incisa +
Euplotopsis muscicola + +
Exocolpoda augustini + + + +
Fuscheria nodosa +
Fuscheria terricola + + + + +
Gastrostyla steinii +
Gonostomum affine + + + + + +
Grossglockneria acuta + +
Halteria grandinella + +
Hausmanniella patella +
Hemiamphisiella terricola +
Hemisincirra inquieta + + +
Hemisincirra rariseta +
Hemiurosoma terricola +
Holostichides chardezi +
Holostichides terricola + + +
Homalogastra setosa + + + + +
Keronopsis dieckmanni +
Kuklikophrya ougandae +
Lamtostyla halophila +
Lamtostyla islandica + +
Leptopharynx costatus + + + + +
Metauroleptus arabicus nov. spec. +
Metopus gibbus +
Metopus hasei + +
Metopus minor +
Metopus ovalis +
Metopus palaeformis +
Monodinium perrieri + +
Mykophagophrys terricola + +
Nassula tuberculata + +
Nassulides pictus +
Nivaliella plana + + + + +
Odontochlamys alpestris biciliata +
Odontochlamys convexa + + +
Oxytricha arabica nov. spec. + +
Oxytricha elegans +
Oxytricha granulifera +
Oxytricha longa + +
Oxytricha setigera +
Paraenchelys terricola +
Parafurgasonia sorex +
Paragonostomum binucleatum +
Paragonostomum caudatum + + +
Paragonostomum multinucleatum +
Periholosticha paucicirrata + +
Plagiocampa difficilis + + + +
Plagiocampa ovata +
Plagiocampa pentadactyla +
Plagioicampa rouxi +
Platyophrya macrostoma + + +
Platyophrya spumacola spumacola + + + +
Platyophrya vorax + + + +
Plesiocaryon elongatum + + + + +
Pleuroplites australis +
Podophrya halophila +
Protocyclidium muscicola + + +
Protocyclidium terricola + + +
Pseudochilodonopsis mutabilis + +
Pseudocohnilembus persalinus hexakineta +
Pseudocyrtolophosis alpestris + +
Pseudohemisincirra arabica nov. spec. +
Pseudoholophrya terricola +
Pseudoplatyophrya nana + + + +
Pseudoplatyophrya saltans +
Pseudourostyla franzi +
Pseudovorticella sphagni +
Rigidocortex octonucleatus +
Rostrophrya fenestrata +
Sagittaria hyalina + +
Sathrophilus muscorum + + + +
Saudithrix terricola nov. gen., nov. spec. +
Semiplatyophrya foissneri +
Spathidium alqasabi nov. spec. +
Spathidium claviforme + + + +
Spathidium etoschense +
Spathidium procerum + +
Spathidium spathula +
Sterkiella histriomuscorum-complex + +
Stylonychia bifaria +
Tachysoma humicola humicola + +
Terricirra matsusakai + +
Tetrahymena rostrata + +
Uroleptus notabilis + + + +
Urosoma emarginata +
Urosomoida agiliformis + + +
Urosomoida agilis + +
Urostyla grandis +
Vorticella astyliformis + + +
Vorticella infusionum +
Wolfkosia loeffleri +
Woodruffia rostrata +
Woodruffides terricola + +

Number of species identified 80 45 31 40 22 42
New species 2 4 3 0 1 1
Number of unidentified taxa 13 7 4 0 0 0
Number of unidentified, likely undescribed taxa 7 3 1 0 0 0
Total number of taxa 93 51 35 40 22 42