A Key to the Common Parasitic Protozoans of North American Fishes |
Common terms and phrases
10-power eyepiece 20 microns adoral zone winds Asexual reproduction attached free-swimming Fig attachment organelle AUBURN UNIVERSITY Axostyle Balantidium binary fission blepharoplast Bodomonas body or gills Chromatophores absent Chromatophores present cilia making three-quarters Ciliation incomplete Class Ciliata Class Mastigophora Class Suctoria Colponema COMMON PARASITIC PROTOZOANS Costia Cryptobia cysts cytoplasm cytostome denticle Denticular ring Eastern Fish Disease ectoparasitic Euglenosoma field of view flagella present flagellum gills of Pomoxis Glossatella Hexamita high dry holozoic Ichthyophthirius intestine Lamellasoma large adoral membrane large conspicuous macronucleus microscope slide modified from Davis nucleus objective the field oil immersion objective Oodinium organelles of locomotion organism being identified peristome pharyngeal basket phores present polar capsule polar filament Pomoxis spp PROTOZOANS OF NORTH Schizamoeba Scyphidia sexual reproduction small inconspicuous micronucleus Spore shell sporozoans stalk thorn Transverse groove Trichodina Trichophrya turn or less undulating membrane urinary bladder Vauchomia ventral surface wide ventral groove zone of cilia zone of membranelles