Microthorax

Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Amphileptidae

Loxophyllum
Dujardin, 1841





Family: Oral area subapical, ovoid, flattened, along ventral margin of laterally compressed body; both side ciliated (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Ventral side with a hyaline border, reaching posterior end and bearing trichocysts; dorsal side with either similar trichocyst-border or with trichocyst-warts (Kudo, 1966).


Loxophyllum ??, x 400, x 640, Uruguay Nov. 1999, photo by Y. Tsukii
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