Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Soil Org. 2008 Jan;80(1):81–99.

Tab. 1.

Ciliate species diversity in six soil samples from Singapore

Species a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Amphisiella australis +
Anteholosticha australis +
Arcuospathidium
namibiense tristicha
+ +
Birojimia muscorum +
Blepharisma hyalinum +
Bresslaua vorax + +
Bresslauides terricola b +
Bursaria truncatella +
Byrometopus
pseudochilodon
+ +
Caudiholosticha
sylvatica
+ + +
Chilodontopsis
muscorum c
+
Cinetochilum
margaritaceum
+ + +
Colpoda cucullus + + + + +
Colpoda edaphoni +
Colpoda henneguyi + + +
Colpoda inflata + + + + +
Colpoda lucida + +
Colpoda magna +
Colpoda maupasi + + + + +
Colpoda steinii + + + + + +
Colpoda tripartita +
Cultellothrix atypicum +
Cyrtohymena candens + + +
Cyrtohymena citrina + +
Cyrtohymena
quadrinucleata
+
Cyrtolophosis mucicola + + + + +
Decliviostoma
namibiensis d
+
Dileptus anguillula +
Dileptus microstoma (n. sp; see Vd’ačný & Foissner, 2008) +
Dimacrocaryon
amphileptoides
+
Drepanomonas
musicola
+ +
Drepanomonas
pauciciliata
+ + +
Drepanomonas revoluta +
Drepanomonas sphagni +
Enchelys multinucleata +
Epispathidium
amphoriforme
+
Epispathidium terricola + + +
Euplotes muscicola +
Fuscheria terricola e +
Gastronauta derouxi +
Gonostomum affine + + + +
Grossglockneria acuta +
Grossglockneria
hyalina
+
Halteria grandinella +
Hausmanniella
discoidea
+ +
Hausmanniella patella + + + +
Hemiamphisiella
terricola
+ +
Hemisincirra inquieta + + +
Hemisincirra wenzeli +
Holostichides terricola +
Homalogastra setosa + + +
Leptopharynx costatus (microstomes and
macrostomes)
+ + + + + +
Microdiaphanosoma
arcuatum
+ + + +
Mycophagophrys
terricola
+ +
Nivaliella plana + +
Odontochlamys
gouraudi
+
Ottowphrya dragescoi +
Ottowphrya magna (n . sp.; see Foissner 1993) +
Oxytricha granulifera (MA with crystals in sample 1) + + +
Oxytricha longa +
Oxytricha
longigranulosa
+
Oxytricha setigera + +
Paracineta lauterborni +
Paraenchelys wenzeli +
Parentocirrus hortualis +
Periholosticha
paucicirrata
+
Phacodinium
metchnikoffi
+
Platyophrya
macrostoma
+
Platyophrya spumacola + + +
Platyophrya vorax + + + +
Plesiocaryon elongatum +
Pleuroplites australis +
Protocyclidium
muscicola
+ + +
Pseudocyrtolophosis
alpestris
+ + + + +
Pseudoholophrya
terricola
+
Pseudoplatyophrya
nana
+ + + + +
Pseudoplatyophrya
saltans
+ + + +
Pseudourostyla franzi +
Sathrophilus muscorum + + + +
Sikorops woronowiczae +
Stammeridium kahli +
Sterkiella cavicola +
Sterkiella
histriomuscorum
+ +
Suturothrix monoarmata n. g., n. sp. +
Tachysoma
humicola humicola
+
Tachysoma
humicola longisetum
+
Terricirra livida +
Tetrahymena rostrata + + + +
Trachelophyllum
apiculatum f
+ +
Urosomoida agiliformis +
Urosomoida agilis +
Vorticella astyliformis +
Woodruffiides
metabolicus
+
Number of species identified 52 24 36 20 5 9 35
Number of species not identified 4 1 0 2 0 0 3
Unidentified species possibly not described 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
a

For names of authors of species see Foissner (1998), Foissner et al. (2002), Berger (2006), and Foissner & Xu (2007).

b

Differs from other populations in having only a single micronucleus. Thus, it possibly represents a distinct subspecies; see Colpoda cavicola amicronucleata in Foissner et al. (2002).

c

Very slender, i.e., almost tail-like narrowed posteriorly. Kahl (1931) supposes that such forms might represent a new species. Unfortunately, the silver preparations are too poor to permit a decision. The number of basket rods and the location of the contractile vacuole match the European population of C. muscorum (Kahl 1931, Foissner 1984).

d

Replaces the homonym Obliquostoma.

e

Macronucleus ellipsoidal, i.e., dissimilar to that usually found in F. terricola. Body shape, however, more or less obclavate, and thus similar to F. terricola.

f

Identification not checked by SEM analysis of cortical scales.