image_list image_listE

Lobosea: Testacealobosia: Arcellinida: Difflugina: Heleoperidae

Heleopera sylvatica
Penard

Heleopera Genus: Test chitinous, coloured greyish-rose or deep purple, nearly allways rough with adhering sand-grains; pseudostome narrow, elliptic, notched in lateral view, frontal view of pseudostome more or less convex or truncated, with rounded corners; (Cash, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. II, 1909).
Species: Test transparent, oval in broad view, 50-75 μm long, 25-30 μm wide; pseudostome distinctly convex (Cash, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. II, 1909).


Heleopera sylvatica Penard, test 130 μm long, 78 μm wide, L/W=1.7, pseudostome 45 μm wide, x 400, x 640, No.4, Tanohara marsh, Shiga highland, Yamanouchi town, Nagano Pref., Japan, June 17, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Heleopera Heleopera Heleopera
x 640
Heleopera Heleopera Heleopera

Images of collecting locality: No.4, Tanohara marsh, Shiga highland, Yamanouchi town, Nagano Pref., Japan, June 17, 2007 by Y. Tsukii


Please click on images for viewing enlarged.
Copyright Protist Information Server