Bibliographic Detail
Lee, W.J., 2002
Reference:
Lee, W.J. (2002). Redescription of the rare heterotrophic flagellate (Protista) - Phyllomitus
undulans Stein, 1878, and erection of a new genus - Pseudophyllomitus gen. n. Acta Protozoologica 41: 375-381.
Abstract:
Phyllomitus undulans Stein 1878 is redescribed by light-microscopy from live material found in marine sediments of Botany
Bay, New South Wales, Australia. This species is 11-21 µm long, is somewhat flexible, has no gullet or pocket and has two flagella that
adhere to each other and which arise at the anterior end of the cell. To accommodate the taxa without adhering flagella, which had previously
been assigned to this genus, a new genus (Pseudophyllomitus gen. n.) is erected and contains 4 new combinations; Pseudophyllomitus
apiculatus comb. n., Pseudophyllomitus granulatus comb. n., Pseudophyllomitus salinus comb. n., Pseudophyllomitus vesiculosus comb. n.
One more new combination Hemistasia amylophagus comb. n. is introduced for one other species, Phyllomitus amylophagus. The
evolutionary affinities of these genera (Phyllomitus and Pseudophyllomitus) cannot be established on the basis of present information, and
they are placed among the protists as incertae sedis.
