Genus: Body more or less ovo-cylindrical; rigid with spirally striated pellicle; often with a short posterior spinous projection; stigma sometimes present; discoidal chromatophores (chloroplasts) numerous and marginal; paramylum bodies usually large and ring-shaped, laterally disposed; without pyrenoids; fresh water (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Cell body ovoidal, both ends rounded, 30-45 μm long, 22-31 μm wide; anterior end slightly depressed, whereby an opening for a canal located (near but not at the center of the apical end); locomotive flagellum long (about twice of the body length); a single paramylon body disc-shaped; pellicle spirally-striated at right hand; stigma large (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000).

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L. salina 55 x 45 μm near Town Hall Shobu Saitama, 2004	L. salina 55 x 40 μm Ranzan Saitama, 2004	L. salina 54 x 39 μm Saitama, 2001	L. salina 50 x 42 μm Imou bog Toyohashi Aichi, 2004
L. salina 50 x 40 μm Fujimi Saitama, 2003	L. salina 48 x 33 μm Mihashi Park Saitama, 2002	L. salina 47 x 35 μm near Mihashi p. Saitama, 2006
L. salina 47 x 37 μm Higashi-sano Hakuba Nagano, 2004	L. salina 47 x 35 μm Japan, 1998 Movies
L. salina 45 x 30 μm Yoshimi athletic p. Yoshimi Saitama, 2004	L. salina 44 x 32 μm near Town Hall Shobu Saitama, 2004	L. salina 43 x 31 μm Japan, 1998	L. salina, ? 43 x 35 μm Uruguay, 1999
L. salina or L. fusiformis ? 43 x 28 μm Sakitama-kofun p. Gyoda Saitama, 2004	L. salina 40 x 32 μm Kasama Park Ibaraki, 2002	L. salina 39 x 29 μm Japan, 199? by H. Yoshino	L. salina 39 x 28 μm Sakitama-kofun p. Gyoda Saitama, 2004
L. salina 39 x 33 μm Higusa-numa Hikari Chiba, 2003	L. salina 36 x 28 μm Hazama marsh Ashikaga Tochigi, 2003	L. salina 34 x 25 μm Akigase Park Saitama, 2002

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