Family: Oral area subapical, ovoid, flattened, along ventral margin of laterally compressed body; both side ciliated (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Ventral side with a hyaline border, reaching posterior end and bearing trichocysts; dorsal side with either similar trichocyst-border or with trichocyst-warts (Kudo, 1966).

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L. meleagris 9 samples 300-600 μm Mac. moniliform Japan, 1998-2006	L. verrucosum 3 samples 106-169 μm Mac. moniliform peripheral bristles Japan, 1999-2006	L. kahli ? 2 samples 125-160 μm Mac. moniliform Japan, 1999-2002	L. helus 10 samples 110 -195 μm 2 Mac. 8-12 μm φ 1997-2005
L. elegans ? 120-125 x 25 μm 2 Mac., 8 μm φ Japan, 1998	L. elegans ? 110 x 28 μm Tama river Setagaya ku Tokyo, 2004	L. elegans ? 120 x 27 μm Watarase river Ashikaga Tochigi, 2004
Loxophyllum sp.3 103 x 17 μm 2 Mac., 6 μm φ Japan, 1998	L. niemeccense 92 x 33 μm ? Mac. Japan, 199?
L. niemeccense cell μm Japan, 1998	Loxophyllum sp.5 103 x 30 μm 1 Mac. 9 μm φ Uruguay, 1999	Loxophyllum sp.5 82 x 33 μm Iruma Saitama, 2002	Loxophyllum sp.5 160 x 55 μm Tane-ike Togakushi highland Nagano, 2006
Loxophyllum sp.5 140 x 40 μm Kashibaru m.3 Karatsu Saga, 2006	L. lanceolatum 105 x 59 μm 2 Mac. ? Japan, 1999	L. lanceolatum 95 x 20 μm Kurome river Asaka Saitama, 2006	L. lanceolatum 74 x 19 μm 2 Mac. 8 μm φ Kuroiso Tochigi, 2001
L. uninucleatum 50 x 14 μm single Mac. Japan, 1998	Loxophyllum sp.6 44 x 16 μm 2 Mac. 6 μm φ Japan, 1998 Movies	Loxophyllum sp.4 32-34 x 14 μm 2 Mac. 5 μm φ Japan, 1998

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