Thecamoebous moss-rhizopods from New Zealand
Thecamoebous moss-rhizopods from New Zealand
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来自新西兰的 Thecamoebous 苔藓根足类动物
DOI:
10.1007/bf02519268
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发表时间:
1948
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影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
A. Groot
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作者:
H. R. Hoogenraad;A. Groot
Some years ago we investigated the Thecamoebous Rhizopods in a number of dried moss samples obtained by purchase f rom several localities in Europe. The results of this investigation, part ly unpublished yet, were relatively sat isfactory and induced us (in 1938/'39) to t reat some moss samples f rom outside Europe in the same manner. They were collected in New Zealand (19), Siberia (8), China (1), Afr ica (1), South America (11) and North America (17), in all 57 localitieK Some of the samples proved ra ther rich in remains of Rhizopods; these we studied more thoroughly and determined the relative frequency of the different species occurring in it. This frequency we expressed in numbers varying f rom 1 to 6, 1 meaning very rare, 6 very common. Of the other samples we observed only a few preparat ions and noted the species, occurring in it, which were also entered in the general survey of the species. The samples studied belonged for a very small par t to the Sphagnales, for f a r the greater par t to the Bryales. They were collected with bryological, not with zoological purposes, and consequently f rom the Rhizopodan tests occurring in the dry samples a conclusion as to the species which lived in the mosses in a fresh condition cannot be drawn with any degree of certainty. I t is possible that especially Sphagnum species growing in very wet places were squeezed out by the collector to remove the redundant water ; obviously in such a case a more or less greater number of the tests were also removed. On the other hand, the tests actually present in the samples were in the whole preserved in an excellent condition, notwithstanding the fact that the greater par t had been collected many years ago and had since been kept in a dry state. This applies not only to the species the tests of which are composed of xenosomes, but also to those the tests of which existed of idiosomes or presented a hyaline structure. The manipulation of the material was relatively simple. For a short time it was boiled up in water to remove the adhering air, a f te r cooling pressed out with the hand and the sediment studied in ordinary cover-glass preparat ions; permanent-prepa-