Prostomatea:
Prorodontida : Urotrichidae
Urotricha farcta
Claparède & Lachmann 1859
Genus (Claparède and Lachmann, 1858):
Ovoid or cylindrical; apical cytopharynx; posterior bald; caudal cilia present;
contractile vacuole posterior (Carey, 1992).
Species:
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Urotricha farcta ?,
cell body 30 μm long, 21 μm wide, caudal cilium 15 μm long,
x 100, x 200, x 400, Tendoh City, Yamagata Pref., Japan, 1999, by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400
Azure C staining
U. farcta (Stokes, 1886) Kahl, 1930: Small;
20 μm long;
pyriform or pyramidal in shape; posterior without ciliation except for a singlecaudal
cilium; cytostome small; macronucleus spherical, centrally placed (Carey, 1992).
--> U. farcta ?? (Kudo, 1966).
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