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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

Loxophyllum helus
(Stokes, 1884) Kahl, 1931

Loxophyllum helus Genus: Ventral side with a hyaline border, reaching posterior end and bearing trichocysts; dorsal side with either similar trichocyst-border or with trichocyst-warts (Kudo, 1966).
Species: a very common species; elongate; 160 μm long; with a neck region and rounded tail; highly contractile; two ovoid macronuclei; a single contractile vacuole (Carey, 1992).


Loxophyllum helus (Stokes, 1884) Kahl, 1931, cell body 115 μm long, μm wide, x 640, Showa-machi general park, Showa town, Saitama Pref., Japan, August 2003 by Y. Tsukii
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Loxophyllum Loxophyllum


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