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Prostomatea: Prorodontida: Colepidae

Coleps inermis
Perty 1858?

Coleps Genus: Body form barrel-shaped; with regularly arranged ectoplasmic plates; cytostome at anterior end, surrounded by slightly longer cilia; often spinous projection at or near posterior end; one or more long caudal cilia (Kudo, 1966).
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Coleps inermis Perty 1858? (or C. striatus Smith 1897 ?), cell body 55 μm long, 30 μm wide, x 640, a pond at Ashikaga flower park, Tomita, Ashikaga city, Tochigi Pref., Japan, April 22, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Coleps hirtus Coleps hirtus

Images of collecting locality: a pond at Ashikaga flower park, Tomita, Ashikaga city, Tochigi Pref., Japan, April 22, 2006 by Y. Tsukii


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