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Nassophorea: Nassulida: Parahymenostomatina: Paranassulidae

 Paranassula sp.
Kahl, 1931

Paranassula Genus: Buccal cavity and internal atrium large; a well-developed cytopharyngeal basket present; the atrial depression is in two parts, the outer shallow region and an inner deep region leading to the cytostome (Carey, 1992). Like Nassula, but cyrtos has smaller opening (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
Species:

Paranassula microstoma, cell body 150 μm long, 52 μm wide, cyrtos more than 35 μm long, opening 5 μm wide, macronucleus ellipsoidal, 35 μm long, 20 μm wide, collected from fresh water, x 400, Japan, 1997 by Y. Tsukii
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Paranassula Paranassula Paranassula

P. microstoma (Claparède and Lachmann): Pellicle roughened by a criss-cross of longitudinal and circular furrows; macronucleus elongate oval, posterior; contractile vacuole middle & right-dorsal; about 80-95 μm long, salt water (Kudo, 1966).

P. brunnea (Fabre-Domergue, 1885) Fauré-Fremiet, 1963: 250-300 μm long; flexible and elastic but non-contractile; a single contractile vacuole middle; macronucleus long and vermiform (Carey, 1992).

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