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 33 μm long, 9 μm wide,
x 640, standing water close to rice field, Sanga, Shobu town, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 6, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640