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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).

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Loxophyllum helus (or L. rostratum ?), cell body 150-160 μm long, 25-27 μm wide, 2 macronuclei, about 9 μm in diam., x 400, x 640, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
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