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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

Litonotus lamella
Syn.: Lionotus lamella (Ehrenberg) Schewiakoff, 1896

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: Cell body 200 μm long (Kahl, 1930).
Two macronuclei
Litonotus
L. lamella
or L. cygnus ?
138 μm
Saitama, 1999
Movies
Litonotus
L. lamella
or L. cygnus ?
195 μm
Japan, 1999

Similar Genus ->> Loxophyllum; Amphileptus


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