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Prostomatea: Prostomatida: Holophryidae

 Holophrya gracilis
Penard 1922

Holophrya Order: No kinetidal specializations at oral region.
Family: Free swimming; most body kineties bipolar, cytostome apical.
Genus: Cytostome not preceded by invatination lined by body kineties.
Species: Cell body about 60 μm long (Kahl, Urtiere oder Protozoa I, 1930).

Holophrya gracilis Penard 1922 ?, cell body 72 μm long, 44 μm wide, x 640, Yoshigadaira (or Yoshigataira) marsh, Shirane mountain, Kusatsu town, Gunma Pref., Japan, June 5, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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