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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Amphileptidae

Litonotus sp.
Wrzesniowski, 1870

Family: Oral area subapical, ovoid, flattened, anlong ventral margin of laterally compressed body; both side ciliated (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Flask-shaped; elongate, flattened; anterior region neck-like; cilia only on right side; without trichocyst-borders; cytostome with trichocysts; two macronuclei (Kudo, 1966).


Litonotus sp., cell body μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii


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