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Filosea: Gromiida: Euglyphina: Euglyphidae

 Euglypha strigosa
(Ehrenberg) Leidy, 1878

Euglypha Species: Test braodly oviform or pyriform, dorso-ventrally compressed, transverse section ellioptical, 45-100 μm long, 30-60 μm wide; many hairly projections at periphery; pseudostome circular (cf. E. ciliata, E. compressa) bordered by 10-14 denticulated, thickened scales, 12-23 μm; body scales 7-10.5 μm long, 4.5-5.5 μm wide (Cash & Wailes, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. III, 1915).

Euglypha strigosa f. heterospina Penard ?, test 68 μm long, 43 μm wide, L/W=1.6, pseudostome 14 μm wide, spines up to 17 μm long, scales 8 x 4 μm, x 640, Numa-no-hara marsh (Genseikaen), Madarao highland (Niigata & Nagano Pref.), Myoko village, Niigata Pref., Japan, May 15, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Euglypha Euglypha Euglypha

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