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Filosea: Gromiida: Euglyphina: Euglyphidae

 Euglypha tuberculata
Dujardin, 1841

Euglypha tuberculata Genus: Test round or oval in cross-section; pseudostome terminal with dentate scales.
Species: Test elongate-oviform with hemispherical crown, not compressed, 45-100 μm long, 24-50 μm wide; pseudostome circular, 10-20 μm diam.; body scales circular to broadly oval in shape, 8-12 in each row, 10-16 μm long (Cash & Wailes, 1915).

Euglypha tuberculata, test 66 μm long, 32 μm wide, L/W=2.1, pseudostome 14 μm wide, P/W=, scales elliptical, 9 μm long, 7 μm wide, L/W=1.3, x 640, Kannon-numa Forest Park (pond), Shimogo town, Fukushima Pref., Japan, September 10, 2005, collected by Eizaburo Tsukii, photo by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Euglypha Euglypha Euglypha

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