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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

Litonotus fusidens
Kahl, 1926

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 fusidens Kahl, 1926 ?, cell body 92 μm long, 21 μm wide, x 640, Shiba river, near Owada Park, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, April 3, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Litonotus Litonotus


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