TY - BOOK ID - 7908281 TI - Monograph of the Spathidiida (Ciliophora, Haptoria) : Vol I: Protospathidiidae, Arcuospathidiidae, Apertospathulidae AU - Foissner, Wilhelm. AU - Xu, Kuidong. PY - 2007 SN - 9400788533 1402042108 9786610816712 1280816716 1402047355 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Ciliata -- Classification. KW - Spathidiidae -- Classification. KW - Spathidiidae KW - Ciliata KW - Zoology - General KW - Invertebrates & Protozoa KW - Zoology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Ciliated protozoa KW - Ciliophora KW - Bryophyllidae KW - Homalozoidae KW - Legendreidae KW - Perispiridae KW - Life sciences. KW - Biodiversity. KW - Zoology. KW - Life Sciences. KW - Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. KW - Biology KW - Natural history KW - Animals KW - Biological diversification KW - Biological diversity KW - Biotic diversity KW - Diversification, Biological KW - Diversity, Biological KW - Biocomplexity KW - Ecological heterogeneity KW - Numbers of species KW - Animal systematics. KW - Animal taxonomy. KW - Animal classification KW - Animal systematics KW - Animal taxonomy KW - Classification KW - Systematic zoology KW - Systematics (Zoology) KW - Taxonomy, Animal KW - Zoological classification KW - Zoological systematics KW - Zoological taxonomy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7908281 AB - The spathidiids belong to the ciliate subclass Haptoria (Protozoa, Ciliophora), that is, they are predators using toxicysts to overwhelm the prey. Over 200 nominal spathidiid species have been described, sometimes based on seemingly minute differences. Thus, many protozoologists considered them as indeterminable and claimed for a detailed revision. The present monograph carefully revises the taxonomy, nomenclature, and ecology of all nominal species and shows that spathidiid diversity has been greatly underestimated. Based on the reinvestigation of described species with modern methods (silver impregnation, scanning electron microscopy) and the first description of over 50 new species, the family Spathidiidae is split into four families and 20 genera. Each species is described and figured in detail, making it unnecessary to go back to the original literature often difficult to obtain. Two identification keys are provided, viz., one for taxonomists and another, simple key for users not specifically trained in ciliate taxonomy. ER -