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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 kahli ? , cell body 160 μm long, 80 μm wide, x 640, Mihashi Park, Saitama city (Omiya), Saitama Pref., Japan, October 2002 by Y. Tsukii
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Loxophyllum kahli Loxophyllum kahli
macronuclus moniliform, x 640
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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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