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Filosea: Euglyphina: Euglyphidae

Trinema enchelys
(Ehrenberg) Leidy

Trinema enchelys Species: Test puch-shaped, ends round, dorsum arched, ventrum flat or concave; 45-50 μm long, 23-26 μm wide; 22-25 μm high; scales elliptical, overlapping; pseudostome elliptical to round, 8-10 μm, rim invaginated, slightly recuved in (llustrated Guide, 1985).
40-50 μm long (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
Test oviform, compressed anteriorly, formed of circular scales; 32-103 μm long, 15-60 μm wide; pseudostome 6-20 μm, scales 4-12 μm in diam.; nucleus 6-12 μm in diam. (Cash & Wailes, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. III, 1915).


Trinema enchelys (Ehrenberg) Leidy ?, cell body 72 μm long, 38 μm wide, pseudostome μm wide, scales about (more than ?) 10 μm wide, x 640, Koigakubo marsh, Tessei-cho, Okayama Pref., Japan, November 22, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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