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).
Species: Flask-shape to broad leaf-like; ventral seam with trichocysts, undulating; macronucleus moniliform (beaded); contractile vacuole terminal; 300-400 (up to 700) μm long (Kudo, 1966). 370 μm long; bluntly pointed at both ends; trichocyst warts on the dorsal surface; contractile vacuole posterior with a canal extending along the dorsal edge (Carey, 1992).

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L. meleagris, x 200 600 μm Mac. moniliform Japan, 1998	L. meleagris, x 400 488 μm Mac. moniliform Hakusui-Oike Park Fukuoka, 2001	L. meleagris, x 400 450 μm Mac. moniliform Japan, 1998	L. meleagris, x 400 375 μm Mac. moniliform Saitama, 1999
L. meleagris μm Mac. moniliform Kosugi Toyama, 2002	L. meleagris, x 400 μm Mac. moniliform Ageo Saitama, 2003	L. meleagris, x 400 μm Mac. moniliform Asakura Kochi, 2002	L. meleagris, x 400 μm Onnenai Kushiro marsh Hokkaido, 2005
L. meleagris 380 x 70 μm Tane-ike Togakushi highland Nagano, 2006

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