Genus: Ventral side with a hyaline border, reaching posterior end and bearing trichocysts; dorsal side with either similar trichocyst-border or with trichocyst-warts (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Cell body broad, 120 μm long, ovoid in shape, laterally flattened, a flattened band with trichocysts present all around the periphery of the cell, peribuccal papillae present, macronucleus moniliform, contractile vacuoles present at dorsal surface (Carey, 1992).

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L. kahli ? 125 x 56 μm Mac. moniliform Shirakawa Fukushima, 1999

L. kahli ? 160 x 80 μm Mac. moniliform Mihashi Park Saitama, 2002

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