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Phyllopharyngea: Suctoria: Exogenida: Urnulidae

 Metacineta mystacina
(Ehrenberg)

Metacineta Genus: Many thin captate tentacles protrude through 5-8 stellately arranged distal slits of lorica (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: cell body 35-100 μm, lorica up to 800 μm attached substratum with tapered posterior end, tentacles more than 150 μm long (Inoki ed., Gensei-Doubutu Zukan, 1981).

Metacineta mystacina, cell body nearly spherical, 40 μm in diam., tentacles up to 75 μm long, x 400, x 640, Hanasaki water park, Kazo city, Saitama Pref., Feburary 6, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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