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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

 Loxophyllum kahli
Dragesco, 1960

Loxophyllum 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: Cell body broad, 120 μm long, ovoid in shape, laterally flattened, a flattened band with trichocysts present all around the periphery of the cell, peribuccal papillae present, macronucleus moniliform, contractile vacuoles present at dorsal surface (Carey, 1992).

Loxophyllum sp. (kahli ?), cell body 125 μm long, 56 μm wide, spherical macronuclei moniliform, 8-9 μm in diam., a contractile vacuole posterior, bristles absent, x 400, x 640, Shirakawa, Fukushima Pref., Japan, October 1999, collected by H. Shiomizu, photo by Y. Tsukii
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Loxophyllum Loxophyllum Loxophyllum

L. kahli Dragesco, 1960: Cell body broad, 120 μm long, ovoid in shape, laterally flattened, a flattened band with trichocysts present all around the periphery of the cell, peribuccal papillae present, macronucleus moniliform, contractile vacuoles present at dorsal surface (Carey, 1992).

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