Monograph of the Urostyloidea (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)

Download or read book Monograph of the Urostyloidea (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) written by Helmut Berger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-19 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book of a series treating the hypotrichs, a major part of the spirotrichous ciliates. It summarises 230 years of morphological, morphogenetic, faunistic, and ecological data, heretofore scattered in some 1,300 references around the world. The book provides taxonomists, cell biologists, and ecologists with a thorough survey supplying synonyms, nomenclature and systematics, and an extensive description of morphology and ecology, including almost all published records, for each species.