“…They also can be separated from each other by the dorsal kinety 4, i.e., distinctly shortened anteriorly in all morphs of T. polymorpha n. sp. while extending to the anterior body end in T. pustulata, an important, but highly underestimated, character in some stylonychine ciliates, for instance, it was found in Stylonychia ammermanni Gupta et al, 2001, S. gibbera Foissner, 2016, S. koreana Kumar et al, 2016, and both subspecies of T. bifaria (Berger, 1999;Gupta et al, 2001;Foissner, 2016;Kumar et al, 2016).…”