Preface
THE fourth edition of Protozoology maintains its original aim in setting forth "introductory information on the common and representative genera of all groups of both free-living and parasitic Protozoa" for seniors and graduates in zoology in colleges and universities. It has been noted in recent years that students frequently wished to obtain a fuller knowledge on certain topics, organisms, processes, etc., than that which was found in the former edition. In order to meet this need without too great an expansion, references have been given to various items in the text and a list of a much larger number of literature has been appended to each chapter. Furthermore, this enlargement of references increases the usefulness of this work to advanced students, teachers of biology, field workers in various areas of biological science, veterinarians, physicians, public health workers, laboratory diagnosticians and technicians, etc.
While the chapter arrangement remains the same as before, a thorough revision has been carried on throughout the text in the light of many recently published contributions to protozoology. Good illustrations are indispensable in this kind of work, since they are far more easily comprehended than lengthy statements. Therefore, old illustrations were replaced by more suitable ones and many new illustrations have been added, bringing up the total number of the text figures now to 376. Except diagrams, all figures are accompanied by the scales of magnification. For illustrations that have been adopted from published papers, the indebtedness of the author is expressed by mentioning the authors' names.
Author(s): Richard R. Kudo (Auth.)
Edition: 4
Publisher: Charles C. Thomas
Year: 1954
Language: English
Pages: 966
City: Springfield, Ill
Contents
Preface vii
Part I: General biology 3
CHAPTER
1 Introduction 5
Relationship of protozoology to other fields of biological science,
p. 6; the history of protozoology, p. 10.
2 Ecology 20
Free-living Protozoa, p. 20; parasitic Protozoa, p. 28.
3 Morphology 39
The nucleus, p. 40; the cytoplasm, p. 45; locomotor organellae, p. 49;
fibrillar structures, p. 60; protective or supportive organellae, p.
70; hold-fast organellae, p. 76; parabasal apparatus, p. 77; Golgi
apparatus, p. 78; chondriosomes, p. 80; contractile and other vacuoles,
p. 83; chromatophore and associated organellae, p. 89.
4 Physiology 97
Nutrition, p. 97; reserve food matter, p. 112; respiration, p. 116;
excretion and secretion, p. 118; movements, p. 122; irritability,
p. 130.
5 Reproduction 145
Nuclear division, p. 145; cytoplasmic division, p. 166; colony
formation, p. 173; asexual reproduction, p. 175; sexual reproduction
and lifecycles, p. 180; regeneration, p. 212.
6 Variation and heredity 223
Part II: Taxonomy and special biology 247
CHAPTER
7 Major groups and phylogeny of Protozoa 249
8 Phylum Protozoa 254
Subphylum 1 Plasmodroma 254
Class 1 Mastigophora 254
Subclass 1 Phytomastigina 256
Order 1 Chrysomonadina 256
9 Order 2 Cryptomonadina 272
10 Order 3 Phytomonadina 276
11 Order 4 Euglenoidina 293
Order 5 Chloromonadina 306
12 Order 6 Dinoaagellata 310
13 Subclass 2 Zoomastigina 333
Order 1 Rhizomastigina 333
14 Order 2 Protomonadina 339
15 Order 3 Polymastigina 369
16 Order 4 Hypermastigina 404
17 Class 2 Sarcodina 417
Subclass 1 Rhizopoda 418
Order 1 Proteomyxa 418
18 Order 2 Mycetozoa 427
19 Order 3 Amoebina 435
20 Order 4 Testacea 472
21 Order 5 Foraminifera 493
22 Subclass 2 Actinopoda 505
Order 1 Heliozoa 505
23 Order 2 Radiolaria 516
24 Class 3 Sporozoa 526
Subclass 1 Telosporidia 526
Order 1 Gregarinida 527
25 Order 2 Coccidia 570
26 Order 3 Haemosporidia 599
27 Subclass 2 Acnidosporidia 635
Order 1 Haplosporidia 635
Order 2 Sarcosporidia 638
28 Subclass 3 Cnidosporidia 643
Order 1 Myxosporidia 643
Order 2 Actinorayxidia 660
29 Order 3 Microsporidia 668
Order 4 Helicosporidia 678
30 Subphylum 2 Ciliophora 683
Class 1 Ciliata 683
Subclass 1 Protociliata 685
31 Subclass 2 Euciliata 690
Order 1 Holotricha 690
Suborder 1 Astomata 691
32 Suborder 2 Gymnostomata 700
Tribe 1 Prostomata 700
33 Tribe 2 Pleurostomata 723
Tribe 3 Hypostomata 728
34 Suborder 3 Trichostomata 737
35 Suborder 4 Hymenostomata 758
36 Suborder 5 Thigmotricha 774
37 Suborder 6 Apostomea 789
38 Order 2 Spirotricha 796
Suborder 1 Heterotricha 796
39 Suborder 2 Oligotricha 814
40 Suborder 3 Ctenostomata 829
41 Suborder 4 Hypotricha 832
42 Order 3 Chonotricha 847
43 Order 4 Peritricha 850
44 Class Suctoria 863
45 Collection, cultivation, and observation of Protozoa 879
Author index 905
Subject index 919
