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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

 Litonotus sp.
Wrzesniowski, 1870
Syn.: Lionotus

Litonotus 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:
Similar Genus ->> Loxophyllum; Amphileptus

Litonotus sp., cell body 67 μm long, 9 μm wide, x 640, Tama river, near Futago-tamagawa railway station, Setagaya ku, Tokyo, Japan, April 6, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
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Litonotus Litonotus

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