New Epizoic Peritrichs of the Soft Shelled Turtle Trionyx muticus
- 1 October 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Transactions of the American Microscopical Society
- Vol. 95 (4) , 682-687
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3225392
Abstract
Soft shelled turtles from northeastern Kansas [USA] have rich aufwuchs communities on their carapaces which include both attached and free-swimming Protozoa. New species described are Epistylis finleyi, E. bishopi, E. plummeri, and Opercularia jahni.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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