Genus: Flask-shaped; elongate, flattened; anterior region neck-like; cilia only on right side; without trichocyst-borders; cytostome with trichocysts; two macronuclei (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Cell body 120-220 μm long (Kahl, 1930).

Two macronuclei
L. armillatus 181 μm Japan, 1998	L. armillatus μm Japan, 1998	L. armillatus ? 188 μm Japan, 1997

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