Genus: Flask-shaped; elongate, flattened; anterior region neck-like; cilia only on right side;
without trichocyst-borders; cytostome with trichocysts; two macronuclei (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
Similar Genus ->> Loxophyllum;
Amphileptus Litonotus meleagris (Ehrenberg 1835) ?,
cell body about 230 μm long, μm wide,
x 640 ?, rice field, Higashi-sano (near Minami-kamishiro railway station), Hakuba village, Nagano Pref., Japan, October 3, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640