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Litostomatea: Haptoria: Pleurostomatida: Litonotidae

 Litonotus sp.
Wrzesniowski, 1870
Syn.: Lionotus

Litonotus Genus: Flask-shaped; elongate, flattened; anterior region neck-like; cilia only on right side; without trichocyst-borders; cytostome with trichocysts; two macronuclei (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
Similar Genus ->> Loxophyllum; Amphileptus

Litonotus sp., cell body 100-113 μm long, μm wide, two macronuclei, a contractile vacuole posterior, x 400, Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii
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Litonotus Litonotus

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