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Lobosea: Testacealobosia: Arcellinida: Difflugina: Heleoperidae

Heleopera sylvatica
Penard

Heleopera Genus: Test chitinous, coloured greyish-rose or deep purple, nearly allways rough with adhering sand-grains; pseudostome narrow, elliptic, notched in lateral view, frontal view of pseudostome more or less convex or truncated, with rounded corners; (Cash, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. II, 1909).
Species: Test transparent, oval in broad view, 50-75 μm long, 25-30 μm wide; pseudostome distinctly convex (Cash, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. II, 1909).


Heleopera sylvatica Penard large var. ?, test 110 μm long, 75 μm wide, L/W=1.5, pseudostome 55 μm wide, x 640, a small wetland near Numa-no-hara marsh (Genseikaen), Madarao highland (Niigata & Nagano Pref.), Myoko village, Niigata Pref., Japan, May 15, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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