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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

Litonotus meleagris
(Ehrenberg 1835)
Syn.: Lionotus

Litonotus 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
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Litonotus Litonotus


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