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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Haptorida: Spathidiidae

Spathidium caudatum
Wetzel, 1927

Spathidium Genus: Body long to ovoid; apex fan-shaped; txicysts evenly distributed along edge of apex (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Body elongate, circular in cross section; antrerior obliquely truncated, surmounted by an unciliated apical ridge, which is lined with trichocysts; cytostome slit-like (Carey, 1992). Very many species (Corliss, 1979).
Species: Cell body 120, 600 μm long (Kahl, 1930).


Spathidium sp. ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Koaze river, Kawagoe city, Saitama Pref., Japan, March 2002 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Spathidium Spathidium


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