In the last two decades, cyrtophorian ciliates have been revealed to demonstrate a high species diversity. But this group remains difficult to study, mainly because of their low abundance and relatively few taxonomically informative morphological characters.

Three Dysteria species, D. crassipes Claparède & Lachmann, 1859; D. brasiliensis Faria et al., 1922; and D. paracrassipes n. sp., were collected from subtropical coastal waters of the East China Sea, near Ningbo, China. The three species were studied

Four cyrtophorian ciliates, Chlamydodon pararoseus sp. n., Chlamydodon bourlandi Qu et al., 2018, Dysteria crassipes Claparède Lachmann, 1859, and Dysteria monostyla (Ehrenberg, 1838) Kahl, 1931, isolated from coastal waters off China, were investigated

Four cyrtophorian ciliates, Chlamydodon pararoseus sp. n., Chlamydodon bourlandi Qu et al., 2018, Dysteria crassipes Claparède & Lachmann, 1859, and Dysteria monostyla (Ehrenberg, 1838) Kahl, 1931, isolated from coastal waters off China, were investigated

The living morphology and infraciliature of seven Dysteria species isolated from the seas around China were investigated by observation of both living cells and specimens after protargol impregnation. Dysteria paraprocera sp. n. is characterized as follows: