Prostomatea:
Prorodontida: Plagiocampidae
Plagiocampa sp.
Schewiakoff, 1892
Genus: Ovoid, spindle-form or cylindrical; cytostome at anterior end in a slit; right ridge thickened and
lip-like (Kudo, 1966).
Oral apparatus apical and slit-like, the right edge of which is thickened and bears long protoplasmic
processes containing trichocysts; single macronucleus & contractile vacuole; caudal cilia present (Carey, 1992).
Species:
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Plagiocampa sp. ?,
cell body 53 μm long, 28 μm wide,
x 640, Watarase-yusuichi (Watarase Wetland), Fujioka town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, March 30, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
* Plagiocampa incisa Kahl, 1933:
Cell body ovoid but not symmetrical, 50 μm long;
cytopharyngeal apparatus small; single caudal cilium; a large macronucleus in the mid-body region;
a single contractile vacuole posteriorly (Carey, 1992).
Plagiocampa rouxi Kahl, 1926:
Cell body ovoid, pointed posteriorly, 40-80 μm long;
apical rfegion with cytoplasmic processes; a single caudal cilium; many vacuoles fill the cytoplasm;
a single contractile vacuole posteriorly (Carey, 1992).
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