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Oligohymenophorea (formerly Nassophorea): Peniculida: Frontoniina: Lembadionidae

Lembadion bullinum
Perty, 1852

Lembadion bullinum Species: Large, ovoid, 120-200 μm long; oral aperture (cytostome) extends almost to the posterior of the cell; a tuft of caudal cilia posterior; contractile vacuole dorsal; macronucleus ovoid and curved (Carey, 1992). 120-200 μm long; posterior cilia 40-50 μm long (Kudo, 1966). Body elliptical; long cytostome 3/4 body length; with large undulatory membrane on left oral margin; macronucleus kidney-shaped, near rear end; fresh water (How to know the protozoa, 1979).


Lembadion bullinum Perty ?, cell body 101 μm long, 47 μm wide, L/W=2.1, cytostome 85 μm long, C/L=0.8, x 640, Kannon-numa Forest Park (pond), Shimogo town, Fukushima Pref., Japan, July 10, 2005, collected by Eizaburo Tsukii, photo by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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