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Phyllopharyngea: Suctoria: Exogenida: Urnulidae

 Metacineta mystacina
(Ehrenberg)

Metacineta Genus: Many thin captate tentacles protrude through 5-8 stellately arranged distal slits of lorica (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: cell body 35-100 μm, lorica up to 800 μm attached substratum with tapered posterior end, tentacles more than 150 μm long (Inoki ed., Gensei-Doubutu Zukan, 1981).

Metacineta mystacina (small variety ??), cell body 24 μm long, 21 μm wide, lorica 67 μm long, 39 μm wide, tentacles extend through 5 slits of lorica, up to 87 μm long, x 400, x 640, Japan, April 1999 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Metacineta mystacina (small variety ??), cell body 28 μm long, 26 μm wide, tentacles extend through 5 slits of lorica, x 400, x 640, Japan, April 1999 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Metacineta mystacina (small variety ??), cell body 33 μm long, 29 μm wide, tentacles extend through 5 slits of lorica, x 400, x 640, Japan, April 1999 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Metacineta Metacineta

Metacineta mystacina (small variety ??), cell body 27 μm long, 31 μm wide, tentacles extend through 5 slits of lorica, x 400, x 640, Japan, April 1999 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400
Metacineta Metacineta Metacineta
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Metacineta Metacineta Metacineta

Metacineta mystacina (small variety ??), cell body 24 μm long, 33 μm wide, tentacles extend through 5 slits of lorica, x 400, x 640, Japan, April 1999 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Metacineta Metacineta Metacineta Metacineta

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