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Monograph of the Hypotricha and Nomenclator Ciliophorum, two useful works for all who deal with ciliates
The Hypotricha are a core-group
of the spirotrichous ciliates. About 1000 nominal species have
been described and it is estimated that 700 to 800 of them are
valid. Four volumes are available (Oxytrichidae; Urostyloidea;
Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae; Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae)
and volume 5 (Uroleptidae) will be published in 2012/2013. The
final volume is in preparation and deals, inter alia, with the
"spiralled" genera, for example, Hypotrichidium,
Strongylidium, Spiretella, Chaetospira.
A key to all taxa revised in volumes 1-6 will be a major part
of volume 6. When the monograph is complete, the hypotrichs will
be the sole very large group of ciliates which is revised in
detail. It is difficult to estimate the share of hypotrichs on
the total number of ciliate species because no detailed conspectus
about this group of protists is available. To overcome this problem,
the Nomenclator Ciliophorum is prepared. This catalogue will
contain all ciliate names ever published: basionyms of species
and infrasubspecific taxa, combinations, genera, and suprageneric
taxa. Furthermore, important taxonomic papers are listed for
each taxon, so that the nomenclator will be useful not only for
taxonomists, but also for ecologists, molecular biologists, and
parasitologists, who will gain from such an index, for example,
in that they can find the updated name (combination) of a certain
organism easily. The Monograph (vol. 6) and the Hypotricha part
of the Nomenclator are supported by the Austrian Science Fund
(FWF), Project P23415-B17.
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Keywords: Hypotrichia, Ciliophora, nomenclature, revision, review, guide, basionym, Ciliophora,
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