Taxonomy and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of two new Euplotes species from China: E. chongmingensis n. sp. and E. paramieti n. sp. (Protista, Ciliophora)

Table 1 Morphometric data of E. chongmingensis n. sp. based on protargol-stained specimens

Character	Min	Max	Mean	Median	SD	SE	CV	n
Body length (μm)	40	54	44.5	46.0	10.1	2.3	22.8	20
Body width (μm)	21	41	31.9	32.0	4.6	1.0	14.4	20
Adoral membranelles, number	22	26	23.9	24.0	1.2	0.3	5.1	20
Length of adoral zone (μm)	26	34	30.0	30.0	2.3	0.5	7.6	20
Frontoventral cirri, number	10	10	10.0	10.0	0	0	0	20
Transverse cirri, number	5	5	5.0	5.0	0	0	0	20
Marginal cirri, number	2	2	2.0	2.0	0	0	0	20
Caudal cirri, number	2	2	2.0	2.0	0	0	0	20
Dorsolateral kineties, number	8	8	8.0	8.0	0	0	0	20
Dikinetids in mid-dorsolateral kinety, number	11	16	12.4	12.0	1.2	0.3	9.9	20
Dikinetids in leftmost kinety, number	3	5	3.7	4.0	0.7	0.1	17.8	20

CV coefficient of variation in %, Max maximum, Mean arithmetic mean, Min minimum, n number of cells measured, SD standard deviation, SE Standard error

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