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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

 Litonotus fasciola
(Ehrenberg, 1838) Wrzesnioski, 1870
Syn.: Lionotus fasciola
Litonotus Genus: Flask-shaped; elongate, flattened; anterior region neck-like; cilia only on right side; without trichocyst-borders; cytostome with trichocysts; two macronuclei (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Cell body 100 μm long (Kahl, 1930).
Similar Genus ->> Loxophyllum; Amphileptus
Litonotus sp., cell body μm long, μm wide, two ovoid macronuclei, a contractile vacuole just behind the macronuclei, x 400, x 640, Yamagata Pref., Japan, 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
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