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PROTOZOOLOGY 



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

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

 fresh or salt water. Many species. 



L. meleagris D. (Fig. 309, d). Form and size highly variable; 

 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, as many as the beads of the macronucleus (Penard, 

 1922) ; contractile vacuole terminal, with a long canal ; 300-400^ long, 

 up to 700ju (Penard); feeds mainly on rotifers; fresh water. 



Fig. 309. a, Amphileptus claparedei, X370 (Roux); b, A. branchiarutn, 

 flattened, X490 (Wenrich); c, Lionotus fasciola, X510 (Kahl); d, Loxo- 

 phyllum meleagris, X120 (Penard); e, L. setigerum, X570 (Sauerbrey); 

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

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



