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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Amphileptidae

Litonotus fasciola
(Ehrenberg, 1838) Wrzesnioski, 1870

Genus: Flask-shaped; elongate, flattened; anterior region neck-like; cilia only on right side; without trichocyst-borders; cytostome with trichocysts; two macronuclei (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Cell body 100 μm long (Kahl, 1930).


Litonotus fasciola, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, a conjugating pair, Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii


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