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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Haptorida: Spathidiidae

 Spathidium cultiforme
Penard, 1922

Spathidium cultiforme Genus: Body long to ovoid; apex fan-shaped; txicysts evenly distributed along edge of apex (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Body elongate, circular in cross section; antrerior obliquely truncated, surmounted by an unciliated apical ridge, which is lined with trichocysts; cytostome slit-like (Carey, 1992). Very many species (Corliss, 1979).
Species:

Spathidium sp. (S. cultiforme large variety or S. procerum ?) or Miriokaryon ??, cell body 590 μm long, μm wide, x 100, x 200, x 400, x 640, Kurihashi, Saitama Pref., Japan, July 2001 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
Spathidium Spathidium Spathidium Spathidium
x 400, x 640
Spathidium Spathidium Spathidium Spathidium Spathidium

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