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Spirotrichea: Stichotrichia: Stichotrichida: Holostichidae

Balladyna sp.
Kowalewski, 1882

Family:
Genus: Ellipsoid; frontals not well developed or lacking; one ventral and two marginal rows of cirri; long dorsal and lateral stiff cirri; fresh water (Kudo, 1966). Generally small, ovoid or elongate; peristome small, 1/3 of the body length; three (one ventral and two mariginal ?) longitudinal rows of ventral cirri and one row of long, thin cirri (=lateral stiff cirri) to right and left of the ventrals; no frontal cirri; a row of transverse cirri; two macronuclei (Carey, 1992).


Balladyna sp., tape No. 0273, time code 0214, Torinome-Kasen Park, Nasu-shiobara city (formerly Kuroiso city), Tochigi Pref., Japan, September 18, 1998 by Y. Tsukii


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