Taxonomy and systematics of a new pleurostomatid ciliate, Pseudolitonotus spirelis gen. et sp. n. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Haptoria)

Lei Wu1, Jiqiu Li2,1, Alan Warren3, Lin X2
1Laboratory of Protozoology, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
2Key Laboratory of the Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, The Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Coastal Ecology and Environmental Studies, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
3Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK

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