Tahir Urfa Bin, Qiong Deng, Zhe Wang, Sen Li, Yang Liu, Zemao Gu
Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China, 430070 Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center for Aquatic Animal Diseases Control and Prevention, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China.
Zootaxa. 2018 Nov 13;4521(1):145-150. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.1.12.
Tokophrya species are either free-living or facultative ectosymbiotic suctorians associated with copepods, isopods, mysids, decapods and amphipods. Tokophrya huangmeiensis in particular is found to be epizoic with the redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus Von Martens, 1868, which has been observed as part of an ongoing investigation of freshwater ciliates biodiversity in Huanggang, Hubei, China (Tahir et al. 2017). This first study on T. huangmeiensis based on morphological features using light microscopy and small subunit ribosomal DNA sequence (Tahir et al. 2017), suggested that more detailed descriptions on the physiological and structural changes of this species should be done. Thus, in this study, we looked at the ultrastructures of T. huangmeiensis using electron microscopy, including both scanning (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
钟形虫类要么是自由生活的，要么是与桡足类、等足类、糠虾类、十足类和端足类相关的兼性外共生吸管虫。特别是黄梅钟形虫被发现附生于红螯螯虾（Cherax quadricarinatus Von Martens，1868）体表，这是在中国湖北黄冈正在进行的淡水纤毛虫生物多样性调查的一部分（Tahir等人，2017年）。这项基于光学显微镜和小亚基核糖体DNA序列的形态学特征对黄梅钟形虫进行的首次研究（Tahir等人，2017年）表明，应该对该物种的生理和结构变化进行更详细的描述。因此，在本研究中，我们使用电子显微镜观察了黄梅钟形虫的超微结构，包括扫描电子显微镜（SEM）和透射电子显微镜（TEM）。
