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Filosea: Gromiida: Euglyphina: Euglyphidae

Sphenoderia lenta
Schlumberger, 1845

Sphenoderia Genus: Test more or less compressed; pseudostome elliptical on end of a clear collar (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Test clear, elliptical, 30-60 μm long, 20-50 μm diam.; collar height 8-10 μm; scales overlapping, elliptical; pseudostome oval slit, 10-22 μm wide; nucleus spherical 20-25 μm; endosome 4-5 μm (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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Sphenoderia lenta Schlumberger, Test 46 μm long, 38 μm wide (diam.), pseudostome 16 μm in diam., scales overlapping ellipsoid, variable in size, x 400, x 640, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima Pref., Japan, October, 1988 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
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