Zooflagellates in an anaerobic waste stabilization pond system in Mexico

✍ Scribed by Fermín Rivera; Alfonso Lugo; Jesús Ponce; Fernando Lares; Ricardo Ortiz

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 633 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0049-6979
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00464782

✦ Synopsis

A protozoological survey was performed on waste stabilization lagoons to isolate, identify, and determine the incidence of zooflagellates present in these waters. A correlation between the species found and the physicochemical parameters determined was also done. Fifteen samplings were analyzed from June 1981 to April 1982. Free-living zooflagellates included: Bodo edax Klebs: Bodo caudatus Dujardin; Trepomonas agilis Dujardin; Pleuromonas jaculans Perty (all of them polisaprobic indicators); Bodo saltans Ehrenberg (a mesosaprobic indicator); and Bodomorpha minima Hollande. A human commensal species Enteromonas hominis Da -Fonseca, was also isolated. The performance of the lagoons was predominantly anaerobic.The temperature seemed to be the most influential factor on the incidence of the zooflagellates isolated, especially in winter time.