''Euplotes petzi'' is a species of

littoral The littoral zone or nearshore is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore. In coastal ecology, the littoral zone includes the intertidal zone extending from the high water mark (which is rarely inundated), to coastal a ...

ciliates, first found near King George Island.

References

*Jiang, Jiamei, et al. "Morphology and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of two marine Euplotes species, E. orientalis spec. nov. and E. raikovi (Ciliophora, Euplotida)." European journal of protistology 46.2 (2010): 121-132. *Di Giuseppe, Graziano, et al. "Improved description of the bipolar ciliate, Euplotes petzi, and definition of its basal position in the Euplotes phylogenetic tree." European journal of protistology 50.4 (2014): 402-411.

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* Hypotrichea Species described in 2008 {{Ciliate-stub

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