HOLOTRICHA 



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reaching posterior end and bearing trichocysts; dorsal side with 

 either similar trichocyst-border or with tricho cyst-warts; macro nu- 

 cleus a single mass or in many parts; contractile vacuole, one to 

 many; fresh or salt water. Many species. 



L. meleagris D. (Fig. 276, d). Form and size highly variable; 



Fig. 276. a, Amphileptus claparedei, X370 (Roux); b, A. branchiarum, 

 flattened, X490 (Wenrich); c, Lionotus fasciola, x540 (Kahl); d, Loxo- 

 phyllum meleagris, Xl20 (Penard); e, L. setigerum, X570 (Sauerbrey); 

 f, Bryophyllum vorax, X360 (Stokes); g, h, Kentrophoros fasciolatum 

 (g, X50;h, XI 10) (Noland). 



flask-shape to broad leaf -like; broad ventral seam with trichocysts 

 and often undulating; dorsal seam narrow and near its edge, groups 

 of trichocysts in wart-like protuberances; macronucleus moniliform; 

 micronuclei, of the same number (Penard) ; contractile vacuole ter- 



