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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 65 μm long, 19 μm wide, L/W=3.4, x 640, Kawaguchi Natural Park, Sashima, Kawaguchi city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 5, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Litonotus Litonotus

Images of collecting locality: Kawaguchi Natural Park, Sashima, Kawaguchi city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 5, 2006 by Y. Tsukii

Litonotus anguilla (Kahl, 1930) (Syn. Lionotus anguilla Kahl, 1930): Elongate with long curving neck and pointed tail; spiral contorsions; 150-160 μm long; longitudinal kineties from pole to pole not converge; a single contractile vacuole posterior; a macronucleus consisting of two parts (two mac.?) with an intercalated micronucleus (Carey, 1992).

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