Genus: Body ovoid, inflexible; ventral surface flattened, dorsal surface convex; peristome broadly
triangular (Kudo, 1966).
Cell body is ovoid, dorsoventrally flattened; dorsal surface may be equipped with some ornamentation;
three groups of cirri (frontoventral, transverse & caudal); macronucleus C-shaped, "3"-shaped, or
horsehoe-shaped (Carey, 1992).
Species: 110 μm long;
body is not ornamented (no ridges), peristome large, wide, extending 1/2 of the cell length;
AZM narrow; 9 frontoventral, 5 transverse, 4 caudal;
macronucleus C-shaped (Carey, 1992).
6 dorsal ridges (How to know the protozoa, 1979). ???
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