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Prostomatea: Prostomatida: Holophryidae

 Holophrya haplostoma
André 1916

Holophrya Order: No kinetidal specializations at oral region.
Family: Free swimming; most body kineties bipolar, cytostome apical.
Genus: Cytostome not preceded by invatination lined by body kineties.
Species: Cell body spherical in shape, 60-80 μm in diam. (Kahl, Urtiere oder Protozoa I, 1930).

Holophrya haplostoma André 1916, cell body nearly spherical, 68 μm long, 63 μm wide, cytostome located at anterior end slightly convexed, contractile vacuole at posterior end, x 640, Iruma river, Sayama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, January 25, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
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