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Spirotrichea: Stichotrichia: Oxtrichidae

Steinia sphagnicola
Foissner, 1989

Suborder: Ventral cirri not as distinct files, except Gastrostyla.
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Steinia sphagnicola , cell body inflexible, long ellipsoidal, bluntly pointed at posterior end, 110 μm long, 40 μm wide, large and rounded AZM about 2/5 body length, marginal cirri confluent at rear, 5 (?) transverse cirri, x 400, x 640, Akigase park, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, October 1998, by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640

A cell ingesting Chilomonas paramecium,


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