Protozoa Guide review

LOXODIDAE,

family / LOXODIDA / LOXODIDAE,

Description

Size very small to very large; body long , flat , with beak-like anterior rostrum ; oral area in long ventral groove behind rostrum ; oral cilia usually as dikinetids along sides of oral area with right paroral a long internal oral dikinetid file , anterior left file of dikinetids , and inverted left oral dikinetid file ; Mullerian vesicles in endoplasm ; two genera. b 9~ 6? 1. Freshwater; Mullerian vesicles with barium salt crystals; without complicated cytoskeleton .. ....... ...... ... .... ....... ....... ........ .. ... .. ....... ... ... Loxode 1'. Brackish and marine ; Mullerian vesicles with strontium salt crystals; with complicat cytoskeleton of fusiform fibers or organic spicules ................... ..... ... ........ ..... .. .. Remanella

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Size very small to very large; body long , flat ,
with beak-like anterior rostrum ; oral area in long
ventral groove behind rostrum ; oral cilia usually
as dikinetids along sides of oral area with right
paroral a long internal oral dikinetid file , anterior
left file of dikinetids , and inverted left oral
dikinetid file ; Mullerian vesicles in endoplasm ; two
genera.
b
9~ 6?
1. Freshwater; Mullerian vesicles with barium
salt crystals; without complicated cytoskeleton ..
....... ...... ... .... ....... ....... ........ .. ... .. ....... ... ... Loxode
1'. Brackish and marine ; Mullerian vesicles with
strontium salt crystals; with complicat
cytoskeleton of fusiform fibers or organic
spicules ................... ..... ... ........ ..... .. .. Remanella