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Guidelines for ciliate descriptions are not available. Thus, the chaos prevails. Some put the diagnosis ahead, others banish it to the end of the paper; some describe the "silver features" first, others put them behind the in vivo observations; some use prosa style, others preper telegramese style, and so on. In our opinion, this bewildering situation, partially caused by inexperienced or very individual journal editors, can be ordered by looking beyound the narrow protozoological borders and adopting the style used by experienced taxonomists from other fields (MAYR 1975). Then, for instance, it becomes clear that telegramese style should be used and species description should commence with a concise "diagnosis" separatin it from the nearest relaives = containing only or mainly those features needed to make a key.
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Foissner, W., Xu, K. (2007). Systematic Section. In: Monograph of the Spathidiida (Ciliophora, Haptoria). Monographiae Biologicae, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4735-5_2
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