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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Haptorida: Enchelyidae

Enchelyodon sp.
Claparède and Lachmann, 1859

Enchelyodon Genus: Ovoid or cylindrical in shape; anterior rounded or drawn out into an elongate snout; cytostome apical; dorsal brush present, formed by paired kinetosomes (Carey, 1992). Oral region truncated with flat membranous region forward of oral dikinetids (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species:


Enchelyodon sp. (E. sulcatus or E. trepida ?), cell body 103 μm long, 28 μm wide, x 400, x 640, Koshigaya, Saitama Pref., Japan, July 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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Enchelyodon Enchelyodon
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Enchelyodon Enchelyodon


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