FRESHWATER SCALED HETEROTROPHIC FLAGELLATES AND HELIOZOA FROM INDIA INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF CHOANOCYSTIS

摘要

A total of 26 scale-bearing protistans were observed from 78 freshwater sites in India using Electron Microscopy. Except for Pterocystis ebelii, the others have all been reported from other geographic locations of the world earlier; they are being reported for the first time from India. Included also is the description of a new heliozoan species: Choanocystis roijackersi sp. nov.