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Oligohymenophorea: Hymenostomatida: Ophryoglenidae

Ophryoglena marina
Burkovsky, 1970

Ophryoglena Suborder: With organelle of Lieberkühn (watch-glass organelle).
Family & Genus: Oral apparatus of trophont complex with rear of polykinetid 2 enlarged; histophagous on dying or dead invertebrates (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Cytostome anterior ventral and spirals down into the body; watch-glass body with a pigment spot on the left of the cytostome (Carey, 1992).

Species: Cell body elongate, elliopsoidal, 80-300 μm long; macronucleus ellipsoidal (Carey, 1992).


Ophryoglena marina Burkovsky ?, cell body 158 μm long, 90 μm wide, x 640, near Okubo ike (pond as water reservoir), Shinano town, Nagano Pref., Japan, November 7, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
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