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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Haptorida: Enchelyidae

Enchelyodon
Claparède and Lachmann, 1859

Family: Oral region flat only at apex; body kineties abut on oral region (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Ovoid or cylindrical in shape; anterior rounded or drawn out into an elongate snout; cytostome apical; dorsal brush present, formed by paired kinetosomes (Carey, 1992). Oral region truncated with flat membranous region forward of oral dikinetids (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
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Enchelyodon
Enchelyodon sp.
115 x 48 μm
Kuroiso
Tochigi, 1999
Enchelyodon
Enchelyodon sp.
or Spathidium ?
125 x 32 μm
145 x 63 μm
USA, 1999
Enchelyodon
E. trepida ?
103 x 28 μm
Koshigaya
Saitama, 2001
Enchelyodon
Enchelyodon ?
or Prorodon ?
μm
USA, 1999
Enchelyodon
Enchelyodon sp.
320 x 54 μm
standing water
Nishiwaga
Iwate, 2007

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Enchelyodon
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