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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 ?, test 85 μm long, 40 μm wide, L/W=2.1, pseudostome nearly circular 16 μm in diam., large scales nearly circular, 11 μm in diam., x 640, Yoshigadaira (or Yoshigataira) marsh, Shirane mountain, Kusatsu town, Gunma Pref., Japan, June 5, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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