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Phyllopharyngea: Cyrtophorida: Chlamydodontina: Chilodonellidae

Trithigmostoma sp.
Jankowski, 1967

Trithigmostoma Genus: Right ventral body kineties extend directly backward; left ventral body kineties complete (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Morphologicall similar to Chilodonella but possesses a row of bristles on the dorsal anterior surface; cytostome oval with a protrusable cytopharyngeal basket; many contractile vacuoles (Carey, 1992).
Species:
Similar Genus ->> Chilodonella; Thigmogaster


Trithigmostoma sp., cell body 69 μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 1000, Japan, 1997 by Y. Tsukii
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