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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 sp. (helus ?), cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, a pond near the entrance of climbing route to Omine mountain, Minakami town, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 21, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
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Images of collecting locality: a pond near the entrance of climbing route to Omine mountain, Minakami town, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 21, 2007 by Y. Tsukii


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