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Colpodea: Colpodida: Colpodidae

Colpoda inflata
(Stokes, 1885)

Colpoda Genus: Body reniform; dorsoventrally flattened; right body edge convex, left concave; somatic groove originates on the dorsal surface, travels around the left side to the entrace of the vestibulum on the ventral surface (Carey, 1992). Oral cavity not tubular (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Cell body 60 μm long (Kahl, 1930).


Colpoda inflata, cell body 52 μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Japan, November 1998, 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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