Litostomatea:
Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae
Loxophyllum elegans
Dujardin, 1841
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:
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Loxophyllum elegans Dujardin ?,
cell body 120 μm long, 27 μm wide,
longitudinal ridges conspicuous at dorsal side,
x 640, Watarase river, Ashikaga city, Tochigi Pref., Japan, February 1, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400
L. elegans Wenzel, 1961: Elongate,
120-150 μm long; domed with longitudinal ridges on
the upper surface; a band containing trichocysts along the ventral edge; two macronuclei;
a single contractile vacuole posterior (Carey, 1992).
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