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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

 Litonotus sp.
Wrzesniowski, 1870
Syn.: Lionotus

Litonotus Genus: Flask-shaped; elongate, flattened; anterior region neck-like; cilia only on right side; without trichocyst-borders; cytostome with trichocysts; two macronuclei (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
Similar Genus ->> Loxophyllum; Amphileptus

Litonotus sp., cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Akasaka-numa (pond), Iwatsuki city, Saitama Pref., Japan, June 2002 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Litonotus Litonotus

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