Prostomatea: Prorodontida: Colepidae
Coleps
Nitzsch, 1827
Genus: Body form barrel-shaped; with regularly arranged ectoplasmic
plates
; cytostome at anterior end, surrounded by slightly longer cilia; often
spinous projection
at or near posterior end; one or more
long caudal cilia
(Kudo, 1966).
Coleps
large species (or similar species), x 400, x 640, Aug. 7-13 1999, Vermont-Maine U.S.A., by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400 :
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
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