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Prostomatea: Prorodontida : Urotrichidae

 Urotricha farcta
Claparède & Lachmann 1859

Urotricha farcta Genus (Claparède and Lachmann, 1858): Ovoid or cylindrical; apical cytopharynx; posterior bald; caudal cilia present; contractile vacuole posterior (Carey, 1992).
Species:

Urotricha farcta ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Nasu-shiobara city (formerly Kuroiso city), Tochigi Pref., Japan, September 2002 by Y. Tsukii
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Urotricha farcta Urotricha farcta

U. farcta (Stokes, 1886) Kahl, 1930: Small; 20 μm long; pyriform or pyramidal in shape; posterior without ciliation except for a singlecaudal cilium; cytostome small; macronucleus spherical, centrally placed (Carey, 1992). --> U. farcta ?? (Kudo, 1966).

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