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Spirotrichea: Hypotrichia: Euplotida: Aspidiscidae

 Aspidisca sp.
Ehrenberg, 1830

Aspidisca Genus: Ovoid, firm; dorsal side convex, ventral side flattened; dorsal surface ridged; adoral zone reduced or rudimentary; macronucleus U-shaped or in two rounded parts (Kudo, 1966).
Species:

Aspidisca sp., cell body 35 μm long, 27 μm wide, 5 (?) frontal cirri, 5 transverse cirri, x 400, x 640, Japan, April 1999, by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Aspidisca Aspidisca Aspidisca

Aspidisca sp., cell body 35 μm long, 25 μm wide, x 400, x 640, Japan 1998 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Aspidisca Aspidisca Aspidisca Aspidisca

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