Gellertia

Gellertia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Class: Karyorelictea
Order: Protoheterotrichida
Family: Geleiidae
Genus: Gellertia
Dragesco, 1999
Species:
G. heterotricha
Binomial name
Gellertia heterotricha
(Dragesco 1960)

Gellertia is a monotypic genus of karyorelict ciliates in the family Geleiidae. It contains a single species, Gellertia heterotricha.

The genus is on average 400 µm long and 60 µm in width. It is characterized by a very simplified adoral infraciliature, reduced to a row of two dikinetids (whereas the genus Geleia shows long polykinetids).

The genus name is a taxonomic patronym honoring the protistologist József Gellért.

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