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ArticleMarine life science & technology2025

Investigating the psammophilic karyorelictean ciliate families Kentrophoridae and Cryptopharyngidae (Protista, Ciliophora): molecular phylogeny, geographic distributions and a brief revision including descriptions of a new genus, a new species and a new combination.

Mingzhen Ma, Danxu Tang, Wen Song, Lifang Li, Igor V Dovgal, Khaled A S Al-Rasheid, Hunter N Hines, Ying Yan

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Mingzhen MaLaboratory of Marine Protozoan Biodiversity & Evolution, Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209 China.
Danxu TangLaboratory of Marine Protozoan Biodiversity & Evolution, Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209 China.
Wen SongLaboratory of Marine Protozoan Biodiversity & Evolution, Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209 China.
Lifang LiLaboratory of Marine Protozoan Biodiversity & Evolution, Marine College, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209 China.
Igor V DovgalA.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol, 299011 Russia.
Khaled A S Al-RasheidZoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, 11451 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hunter N HinesHarbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Pierce, FL 34946 USA.
Ying YanLaboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, and the Key Laboratory of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity (Ministry of Education), Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003 China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psammophillic ciliates are an integral part of the foodweb despite being underrepresented in terms of molecular phylogeny and modern taxonomy. To investigate the karyorelictean group, sampling was conducted in interstitial marine habitats in China for ciliates living between the sand grains, resulting in an examination of the families Cryptopharyngidae Jankowski, 1980 and Kentrophoridae Jankowski, 1980. Three species, i.e.,

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CryptopharynxKentrophorosParakentrophorosPhylogenySSU rDNA

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