Family: Body long, flat, with beak-like anterior rostrum; oral area in long ventral groove
behind rostrum Müllerian vesicles in endoplasm.
Genus: Oral area round, behind rostrum, leads into tubular cavity (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species (magnus Stokes): Extended about 700 μm long; dark brown; twelve to twenty or more
Müllerian vesicles in a row along
dorsal border (Kudo, 1966).
Loxodes sp. or Remanella,
cell body 180 μm long, 50 μm wide,
x 100, x 200, x 400, Saitama Pref., Japan, October 1999, by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400
Loxodes magnus Stokes: Extended about 700 μm long;
dark brown; twelve to twenty or more Müllerian vesicles in a row along dorsal border (Kudo, 1966).
Loxodes vorax Stokes:
125-140 μm long; yellowish brown (Kudo, 1966).