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Our work exemplifies integrated approaches for description of tintinnid taxa, and the potential for diversity discovery, even in these protists that have been historically well-studied in marine waters
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Protists, which have a long history of microscopy descriptions, are in a new golden age of discovery due to a boom in the use of molecular methods for environmental surveys). Contrary to taxa of unexplored habitats, relatively small size or those lacking conspicuous morphological features, tintinnid taxa are assumed to be mostly known. Here we have shown that there are still taxa to be discovered, even in this well-studied group.
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I think this article will focus readers' attention on the uniqueness of brackish water fauna and raise more questions about its origin and importance in the ecosystems of the World Ocean
Alexander Kurilov
Institute of marine biology NAS of Ukraine
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Dartintinnus alderae
n. g., n. sp., a Brackish Water Tintinnid (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) with Dual-ended Lorica Collapsibility, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, December 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12485.
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