Table 1 in Morphology and Phylogeny of Four Marine Scuticociliates (Protista, Ciliophora), with Descriptions of Two New Species: Pleuronema elegans spec. nov. and Uronema orientalis spec. nov.

Table 1. Morphometric characterization of Pleuronema elegans spec. nov. (upper row), P. setigerum Calkins, 1902 (second row), P. grolierei Wang et al., 2008 (third row) and Uronema orientalis spec. nov. (lower row). Data based on protargol stained specimens. All measurements in µm. Abbreviations: CV – coefficient of variation in %; Max – maximum; Mean – arithmetic mean; Min – minimum; n – number of individuals examined; SD – standard deviation.
CharacterMinMaxMeanSDCVnBody length104122111.74.84.321425850.25.110.219324538.47.13.721748280.35.36.221Body width586662.42.74.321263530.42.99.519182421.14.34.621283934.26.15.621Number of somatic kineties181918.20.42.220202020.00018121412.83.22.718182220.26.22.619Number of preoral kineties222.00015––––––565.23.62.716111.00012Number of kinety rows in M33300015330001433000142200013Length of macronucleus293632.426.221161916.50.95.51991211.20.84.921141714.87.16.221Width of macronucleus2832311.65.221141614.70.74.81910138.53.15.721141815.92.74.821