STAUROJOENINA AND OTHER SYMBIONTS IN NEOTERMES FROM SAN-SALVADOR ISLAND, BAHAMAS

Staurojoenina, a conspicuous hypermastigote protist (undocumented in a ny Neotermes) and other hindgut symbionts are reported for the first t ime in Neotermes nr. jouteli, a dry-wood-eating termite (Kalotermitida e), from the red mangroves at the northeast corner of San Salvador Isl and. Other distinctive protists (Macrotrichomonas, Metadevescovina, tw o morphotypes of small trichomonads) and bacteria (Arthromitus-type fi lamentous spore-formers) symbionts were also found in this termite. Th is Staurojoenina sp. replete with epibiotic bacterial symbionts is not distinguished from previously described species of Staurojoenina.