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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 33 μm long, 9 μm wide, x 640, standing water close to rice field, Sanga, Shobu town, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 6, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Litonotus Litonotus


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