Bibliographic Detail
Lee, W.J., Blackmore, R. & Patterson, D.J., 1999
Reference:
Lee, W.J., Blackmore, R. & Patterson, D.J. (1999). Australian records of two lesser known genera of heterotrophic euglenids -Chasmostoma Massart, 1920 and Jenningsia Schaeffer, 1918. Protistology 1(1): 10-16.
Abstract:
We report on Chasmostoma and Jenningsia, two genera of heterotrophic euglenids which have not been reported subsequent to their initial descriptions. Chasmostoma nieuportense was poorly described from Belgian coastal waters by Massart in 1920. A redescription is offered on the basis of material observed in a prawn farm in Queensland, Australia. The genus is distinguished by having an anterior cavity into which the flagellum may be withdrawn when the organism is challenged. Jenningsia is a peranemid genus described with a single emergent flagellum by Shaeffer in 1918. The genus was later redescribed by Lackey in 1940 as Peranemopsis. The recent assumptions that these authors overlooked a second flagellum now seem to be in error, and we assign organisms previously described as Peranema fusiforme and P. macrostoma, species of Peranema described with one emergent flagellum, and species in the genus Peranemopsis to the genus Jenningsia.
