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Lobosea: Testacealobosia: Arcellinida: Difflugiidae

Difflugia elegans
LeClerc, 1815

Difflugia elegans Genus: Pseudostome lacks lobed collar; test round or oval in cross-section; with or lacking a collar (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: 80-130 μm long; 60-105 μm diam.; test, like D. acuminata but shorter, broader; short neck constricted at pseudostome, flared as collar; hollow spine at base; yellow to brown; imbedded siliceous particles; pseudostome 45-55 μm (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Similar genus -->> Paraeuglypha;


Difflugia elegans or Difflugia accuminata var. inflata Penard or D. curvicaulis Penard ?, test 120 μm long (excluding spiny projection), 78 μm wide, pseudostome 25 μm wide, spiny projection 15 μm long, x 400, x 640, Tanohara marsh, Shiga highland, Yamanouchi town, Nagano Pref., Japan, June 1, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Images of collecting locality: Tanohara marsh, Shiga highland, Yamanouchi town, Nagano Pref., Japan, June 1, 2006 by Y. Tsukii


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