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).

Two macronuclei
L. fasciola 125 μm Japan, 1999	L. fasciola 118 x 21 μm Watarase river Ashikaga Tochigi, 2004	L. fasciola 86 μm, x 640 Ushiku Ibaraki, 2002	L. fasciola 80-90 μm Japan, 1998 Movies
L. fasciola ? 38 μm Yamagata, 1999	L. fasciola 84 μm Koshigaya Saitama, 199?	L. fasciola 77 x 10 μm Koshigaya Saitama, 2001	L. fasciola 96 x 14 μm Shakujii Park Tokyo, 2001
L. fasciola 62 x 13 μm Sue-machi Fukuoka, 2001	L. fasciola ? 52 x 12 μm Watarase river Ashikaga Tochigi, 2004

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