Protozoa Guide review

Cranotheridium

genus / HAPTORIDA Corliss , 1974 oblique / SPATHIDIIDAE Kahl

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)

Type species

Figures

Figure 31
Fig. 31
Cranotheridium foliosus. A. Ventral aspect. B.

Raw text

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)