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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

Loxophyllum sp.
Dujardin, 1841

Loxophyllum 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:


Loxophyllum sp. (rostratum ?), cell body 103 μm long, 17 μm wide, two spherical macronuclei 6 μm in diam., x 400, Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii
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Loxophyllum

L. rostratum Cohn, 1866: 100-180 μm long; well-defined neck region anterior; posteriorly rounded; ventral edge sinuous; a flattened band along both sides; two ovoid macronuclei; a single contractile vacuole posterior (Carey, 1992).


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