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Oligohymenophorea: Hymenostomatida: Ophryoglenidae

Ophryoglena sp.

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:


Ophryoglena sp. ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Kita-hirasawa, Hidaka city, Saitama Pref., Japan, April 2003 by Y. Tsukii
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