Genus: Ventral side with a hyaline border, reaching posterior end and bearing trichocysts;
dorsal side with either similar trichocyst-border or with trichocyst-warts (Kudo, 1966).
Species: a very common species; elongate; 160 μm long;
with a neck region and rounded tail; highly contractile; two ovoid macronuclei; a single contractile vacuole
(Carey, 1992).
Loxophyllum sp. (helus ?),
cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=,
x 640, a pond near the entrance of climbing route to Omine mountain, Minakami town, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 21, 2007 by Y. Tsukii 50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400
Images of collecting locality:
a pond near the entrance of climbing route to Omine mountain, Minakami town, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 21, 2007 by Y. Tsukii