Protozoa Guide review

Spathidium

genus / HAPTORIDA Corliss , 1974 oblique / SPATHIDIIDAE Kahl

Description

Oral region conspicuously swollen ; circumoral kinety not completely separated from somatic kineties and composed of kinetofragments of dikinet ids that are not or are only indistinctly separated from each other; anterior ends of somatic kineties bent slightly to "right" (Fig . 33) .

Type species

Figures

Figure 33
Fig. 33
Spathidium spathula . A. Right aspect. B. L

Raw text

Oral region conspicuously swollen ; circumoral
kinety not completely separated from somatic
kineties and composed of kinetofragments of
dikinet ids that are not or are only indistinctly
separated from each other; anterior ends of somatic
kineties bent slightly to "right" (Fig . 33) .