Table 1.
Ciliate species found in soil of a dune (site 1) and a mixed forest (site 2) from The Netherlands (original data); of sand dunes from Norderney, Germany (site 3; from Verhoeven 1999, 2001); and in various sites of Belgium and Denmark (site 4; from Brunberg Nielsen 1968 and Chardez 1967). + = found, − = not found.
| Speciesa | Sites |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3b | 4c | |
| Amphisiella magnigranulosa Foissner | + | + | − | − |
| Amphisiella terricola Gellért | + | − | − | − |
| Arcuospathidium namibiense namibiense Foissner, Agatha & Berger | + | − | − | − |
| Apobryophyllum schmidingeri nov. spec. | + | − | − | − |
| Aspidisca marsupialis Penard | − | − | − | + |
| Blepharisma hyalinum Perty | − | + | + | − |
| Blepharisma steini Kahl | − | − | − | + |
| Bresslaua vorax Kahl | − | + | − | − |
| Bryometopus pseudochilodon Kahl | + | + | − | − |
| Bryometopus sphagni (Penard) | + | − | − | + |
| Chilodonella capucina Penard | − | − | − | + |
| Cinetochilum impatiens Penard | − | − | − | + |
| Cinetochilum margaritaceum (Ehrenberg) | − | − | + | + |
| Circinella filiformis (Foissner) | − | − | + | − |
| Clavoplites australiensis Foissner, Agatha & Berger | − | + | − | − |
| Colpidium colpoda (Losana) | − | − | − | + |
| Colpoda aspera Kahl | + | + | + | − |
| Colpoda cucullus (Müller) | + | + | − | + |
| Colpoda edaphoni Foissner | − | + | − | − |
| Colpoda henneguyi Fabre-Domergue | + | − | + | − |
| Colpoda inflata (Stokes) | + | + | + | + |
| Colpoda lucida Greeff | + | + | − | − |
| Colpoda maupasi Enriques | + | + | + | + |
| Colpoda steinii Maupas | + | + | + | + |
| Cyclidium glaucoma Müller | − | − | − | + |
| Cyrtolophosis muscicola Stokes | + | + | + | − |
| Dileptus alpinus Kahl | + | − | + | − |
| Dileptus anguillula Kahl | + | − | − | + |
| Dileptus margaritifer (Ehrenberg) | − | − | − | + |
| Dileptus sp. | + | − | − | − |
| Dileptus tenuis Penard | − | − | − | + |
| Dimacrocaryon amphileptoides (Kahl) | − | + | − | − |
| Drepanomonas exigua exigua Penard | − | + | − | − |
| Drepanomonas pauciciliata Foissner | + | + | − | − |
| Drepanomonas revoluta Penard | − | − | + | − |
| Enchelyodon lagenula (Kahl) | + | − | − | − |
| Enchelys polynucleata (Foissner) | + | − | − | − |
| Epenardia myriophylli (Penard) | − | − | − | + |
| Epispathidium terricola Foissner | + | + | − | − |
| Epistylis alpestris Foissner | + | − | − | − |
| Euplotes gracilis Kahl | − | − | − | + |
| Euplotes terricola Penard | − | − | − | + |
| Euplotopsis muscicola (Kahl) | − | − | − | + |
| Frontonia depressa (Stokes) | + | + | − | + |
| Fuscheria terricola Berger, Foissner and Adam | − | + | − | − |
| Gonostomum affine (Stein) | + | + | + | + |
| Grossglockneria acuta Foissner | + | + | + | − |
| Halteria grandinella (Müller) | − | + | − | + |
| Hausmanniella discoidea (Gellért) | − | + | − | − |
| Hemisincirra gracilis (Foissner) | − | − | + | − |
| Hemisincirra inquieta Hemberger | + | + | − | − |
| Holosticha adami Foissner | − | − | + | − |
| Holosticha navicularum Kahl | − | − | − | + |
| Holosticha tetracirrata Buitkamp and Wilbert | + | + | − | − |
| Homalogastra setosa Kahl | − | − | + | − |
| Kahliella acrobates (Horváth) | − | − | − | + |
| Kahlilembus attenuatus (Smith) | − | − | − | + |
| Keronopsis schminkei nov. spec. | + | − | − | − |
| Kreyella muscicola Kahl | − | − | + | − |
| Lamtostyla australis (Blatterer and Foissner) | − | + | − | − |
| Leptopharynx costatus Mermod | + | + | − | + |
| Litonotus lamella (Müller) | − | − | − | + |
| Metopus setifer Kahl | − | − | − | + |
| Microdiaphanosoma arcuatum (Grandori and Grandori) | + | − | + | − |
| Microthorax simulans (Kahl) | − | − | + | − |
| Mykophagophrys terricola (Foissner) | + | + | − | − |
| Nassulides pictus (Greeff) | − | − | − | + |
| Nivaliella plana Foissner | + | + | + | − |
| Ottowphrya dragescoi (Foissner) | + | + | − | − |
| Oxytricha fallax Stein | − | − | − | + |
| Oxytricha longigranulosa Berger and Foissner | − | + | − | − |
| Oxytricha proximata (?) | − | + | − | − |
| Oxytricha setigera Stokes | − | − | + | − |
| Paraholosticha muscicola Kahl | − | − | − | + |
| Phacodinium metchnicoffi (Certes) | − | − | − | + |
| Phialina vertens (Stokes) | − | − | + | − |
| Platyophrya spumacola Kahl | − | − | + | − |
| Platyophrya vorax Kahl | + | − | + | − |
| Plesiocaryon elongata (Schewiakoff) | + | − | + | − |
| Podophrya tristriata Foissner, Agatha and Berger | − | + | − | − |
| Protocyclidium muscicola (Kahl) | + | + | − | − |
| Pseudochilodonopsis mutabilis Foissner | − | − | + | − |
| Pseudocyrtolophosis alpestris Foissner | + | + | − | − |
| Pseudoplatyophrya saltans Foissner | − | + | − | − |
| Pseudoplatyophrya nana (Kahl) | + | + | + | − |
| Sathrophilus muscorum (Kahl) | + | + | + | + |
| Sikorops namibiensis Foissner, Agatha and Berger | + | − | − | − |
| Spathidium procerum Kahl | − | − | + | − |
| Sterkiella histriomuscorum (Foissner, Blatterer, Berger and Kohmann) | − | + | − | − |
| Stylonychia mytilus (Müller) | − | − | − | + |
| Stylonychia stylomuscorum (Foissner, Blatterer, Berger and Kohmann) | − | − | − | + |
| Tetrahymena pyriformis − complex | − | − | − | + |
| Uroleptus paranotabilis Foissner, Agatha and Berger | + | + | − | − |
| Urozona buetschli Schewiakoff | − | − | − | + |
| Vorticella lichenicola Greeff | − | − | − | + |
| Vorticella microstoma Ehrenberg | − | − | − | + |
| Vorticella muralis Penard | − | − | − | + |
| Vorticella nebulifera Müller | − | − | − | + |
| Number of species | 41 | 39 | 29 | 41 |
See Foissner (1998) and Foissner et al. (2002) for dates, combining authors, and nomenclature of species. Names used by Brunberg Nielsen (1968), Chardez (1967), and Verhoeven (1999, 2001, 2002) were adapted to Foissner (1998) and Foissner et al. (2002).
Plus at least 10 unidentified species not included in the present list.
Exclusive Chardez’s site M which is a limnetic biotope (Pressière en fagnes). Data of Chardez (1967) doubtful because most of the soil ciliate fauna was unknown at that time. Most data are from forest soils (beech, oak, mixed forests), including those of Brunberg Nielsen (1968) who investigated a Danish beech forest five times during a period of two years; she did not determine members of the genera Spathidium and Dileptus.