Table 2.
Comparison of ciliate diversity in sand dunes of Arabia, Namibia, Australia, the USA, and Europe
| Regions/sites | Identified species | Number of unidentified species |
Number of new speciesa |
Total | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia, site 4 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 40 | this paper |
| Saudi Arabia, site 5 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 23 | this paper |
| Namibia, site 26 | 31 | 3 | 3 | 34 | Foissner et al. (2002) |
| Namibia, site 33 | 47 | 2 | 7 | 49 | Foissner et al. (2002) |
| Australia, site 5 | 36 | 0 | 3 | 36 | both from Blatterer and Foissner (1988) |
| Australia, site 9 | 34 | 8 | 2 | 42 | |
| USA, Utah | 26 | 0 | 1 | 26 | Foissner (1994) |
| The Netherlands, site 1, Europe | 41 | 0 | 3 | 41 | both from Foissner and Al-Rasheid (2007) |
| Norderney, Germany, Europe | 29 | ~10 | ? | 39 |
a
Saudi Arabia, site 5: Oxytricha arabica; Nambia, site 26: Paragonostomum caudatum, Plesiocaryon terricola, Spathidium namibicolar; Namibia, site 33: Diplites arenicola, Metacineta namibiensis, Paragonostomum binucleatum, Paragonostomum rarisetum, Protospathidium namibicola, Spathidium lanceoplites, Urosomoida deserticola; Australia, site 5: Coriplites australis, Phialinides australis, Pseudoplatyophrya saltans; Australia, site 9: Oxytricha granulifera quadricirrata, Rostrophryides australis; USA: Circinella arenicola; The Netherlands, site 1: Apobryophylhum schmidingeri, Dileptus n. sp., Keronopsis schminkei.