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Oligohymenophorea: Hymenostomatida: Ophryoglenidae

Ophryoglena
Ehrenberg, 1831

Suborder: With organelle of Lieberkühn (watch-glass organelle).
Family & Genus: Oral apparatus of trophont complex with rear of polykinetid 2 enlarged; histophagous on dying or dead invertebrates (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Cytostome anterior ventral and spirals down into the body; watch-glass body with a pigment spot on the left of the cytostome (Carey, 1992).
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Ophryoglena
O. flava
215 x 81 μm
one large Mac.
two C.V.
Mitsu-ike Park
Kanagawa, 2002
Ophryoglena
O. flava
195 x 85 μm
one large Mac.
two C.V.
Koraku-en
Okayama, 2002
Ophryoglena
O. marina
200 x 50 μm
one large Mac. ?
one C.V.
Japan, 1998
Ophryoglena
O. marina
156 x 48 μm
one large Mac.
one C.V.
Saitama, 1999
Ophryoglena marina
O. marina
158 x 90 μm
one large Mac.
one C.V.
near Okubo ike
Shinano
Nagano, 2004
Ophryoglena
Ophryoglena sp. ?
μm
one C.V.
Hidaka
Saitama, 2003

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Ophryoglena
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