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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

 Loxophyllum helus
(Stokes, 1884) Kahl, 1931

Loxophyllum helus 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: a very common species; elongate; 160 μm long; with a neck region and rounded tail; highly contractile; two ovoid macronuclei; a single contractile vacuole (Carey, 1992).

Loxophyllum sp. (helus ?), cell body 110 μm long, 33 μm wide (contracted) - 163 μm long, 28 μm wide (extended) , two spherical macronuclei, about 12 μm in diam., x 400, Japan, 1997 by Y. Tsukii
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