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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Haptorida: Enchelyidae

Homalozoon
Stokes, 1890

Family: Oral region flat only at apex; cytostome-cytopharynx circular to ovoid.
Genus: Body long to ovoid; cilia on 1 surface (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Long, thin, cylindrical in shape (vermiform); flattened laterally; contractile; anterior is truncated with cytostome lying along the apical edge; several contractile vacuoles along the dorsal edge (Carey, 1992).
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Homalozoon
H. vermiculare
785 μm
Asaka
Saitama, 1999
Homalozoon
H. vermiculare
685 μm
feeding
USA, 1999
Homalozoon
H. vermiculare
Mic. division
USA, 1999
Homalozoon
H. vermiculare
> 515 μm
Ujiie (Sakura)
Tochigi, 2001
Homalozoon vermiculare
H. vermiculare
μm
Moroyama town
Saitama, 2003
Homalozoon vermiculare
H. vermiculare
μm
Yanase river
Fujimi
Saitama, 2004
Homalozoon vermiculare
H. vermiculare
412 x 40 μm
Iruma river
Sayama
Saitama, 2004
Homalozoon vermiculare
H. vermiculare
680 x 48 μm
Gozaisho marsh
Hachimantai
Iwate, 2005
Homalozoon vermiculare
H. vermiculare
450 x 25-30 μm
Akebono marsh
Tsuchiyu-onsen
Fukushima, 2005
Homalozoon
H. vermiculare ?
with endosymbionts
320 x 30 μm
Karakemi marsh
Yasaka
Nagano, 2005
Homalozoon
Homalozoon ?
50 μm
Japan, 199?

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