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Spirotrichea: Hypotrichia: Euplotida: Euplotidae

Euplotes

Family:
Genus: Body ovoid, inflexible; ventral surface flattened, dorsal surface convex; peristome broadly triangular (Kudo, 1966). Cell body is ovoid, dorsoventrally flattened; dorsal surface may be equipped with some ornamentation; three groups of cirri (frontoventral, transverse & caudal); macronucleus C-shaped, "3"-shaped, or horsehoe-shaped (Carey, 1992).


Euplotes sp., tape No. 0279, time code 0312, Higashi-hiroshima city, Hiroshima Pref., Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii


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