Genus: Pseudostome lacks lobed collar; test round or oval in cross-section;
with or lacking a collar (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Size, 200-400 μm long,
55-100 μm diam; test, cylindroid, narrowed
toward pseudostome, tapered at base to spinelike tip; round cross-section; clear; imbedded quartz
particles. Pseudostome truncate, round 40-90 μm, no neck, no collar (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
[ var. curvata ]:
Test pyriform, curved, with a short cylindrical neck, a blunt mamillary projection on the crown,
240 μm long, 110 μm wide
(Cash, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. II, 1909).
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