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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

Loxophyllum meleagris
Dujardin, 1841

Loxophyllum meleagris 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: Flask-shape to broad leaf-like; ventral seam with trichocysts, undulating; macronucleus moniliform (beaded); contractile vacuole terminal; 300-400 (up to 700) μm long (Kudo, 1966). 370 μm long; bluntly pointed at both ends; trichocyst warts on the dorsal surface; contractile vacuole posterior with a canal extending along the dorsal edge (Carey, 1992).


Loxophyllum meleagris, cell body 488 μm long, μm wide, x 200, x 400, x 640, Hakusui-Oike Park, Kasuga city, Fukuoka Pref., Japan, October 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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