Description
Body ovoid, not flexible; oral region slit-like, not conspicuously swollen (Fig. 31 ). e, Genus Protospathidium Dragesco & Dragesco-Kerneis, 1979 Oral region swollen; circumoral kinety not completely separated from somatic kineties and composed of kinetofragments of dikinetids that are obviously separated from each other; usually fewer than 10 somatic kineties (Fig . 32). 488 CILIOPHORA, LITOSTOMATEA Left aspect. (from Berg er et al. , 1984) .. . . . . . . . ·.. ... ... : . 0 . ' I '. . : .: .. . . . . B .... aspect. (from Foissner, 1984a)
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Body ovoid, not flexible; oral region slit-like, not conspicuously swollen (Fig. 31 ). e, Genus Protospathidium Dragesco & Dragesco-Kerneis, 1979 Oral region swollen; circumoral kinety not completely separated from somatic kineties and composed of kinetofragments of dikinetids that are obviously separated from each other; usually fewer than 10 somatic kineties (Fig . 32). 488 CILIOPHORA, LITOSTOMATEA Left aspect. (from Berg er et al. , 1984) .. . . . . . . . ·.. ... ... : . 0 . ' I '. . : .: .. . . . . B .... aspect. (from Foissner, 1984a)