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Spirotrichea: Stichotrichida: Urostylina: Urostylidae

Uroleptus sp.
Ehrenberg, 1831

Uroleptus Family: Frontal cirri differ in size and/or pattern from ventral ones of files; "collar" extends short distance along right edge of body; oral area not U-shaped (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Elongate body drawn out into a tail-like portion; 3 frontals; 2-4 rows of ventral cirri; marginals; no transverse cirri; sometimes rose- or violet-colored (Kudo, 1966). Frontventral cirri in zig-zag files; rear half narrowed, tail-like (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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Uroleptus attacked by an suctorian, Sphaerophrya sp., cell body 155 μm long, 44 μm wide, x 400, x 640, Fukasaku-gawa Yusuichi, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, May 2002 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
Uroleptus Sphaerophrya Uroleptus Sphaerophrya Uroleptus Sphaerophrya
Uroleptus Sphaerophrya Uroleptus Sphaerophrya Uroleptus Sphaerophrya Uroleptus Sphaerophrya
Uroleptus Sphaerophrya Uroleptus Sphaerophrya Uroleptus Sphaerophrya Uroleptus Sphaerophrya
A Sphaerophrya cell just attached on the tip of the cirri of Uroleptus
Uroleptus Sphaerophrya Uroleptus Sphaerophrya
Two cells of Sphaerophrya absorbing the cytoplasm of the pray
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