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Lobosea: Testacealobosia: Arcellinida: Difflugina: Heleoperidae

Heleopera sphagni
(Leidy)

Heleopera Genus: Test chitinous, coloured greyish-rose or deep purple, nearly allways rough with adhering sand-grains; pseudostome narrow, elliptic, notched in lateral view, frontal view of pseudostome more or less convex or truncated, with rounded corners; (Cash, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. II, 1909).
Species: (Cash, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. II, 1909).


Heleopera sphagni (Leidy) ?, test 138 μm long, 93 μm wide, L/W=1.5, pseudostome μm wide, P/W=, x 640, Hakkoda Gourd line, Hakkoda mountain, Aomori city, Aomori Pref., Japan, July 17, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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