864 PROTOZOOLOGY 



Family 1 Dendrosomidae Biitschli 



Genus Dendrosoma Ehrenberg. Dendritic; often large; nucleus 

 band-form, branched; numerous contractile vacuoles; fresh water. 

 Taxonomy and morphology (Gonnert, 1935). 



Fig. 367. a, Dendrosoma radians, X35 (Kent) ; b, Trichophrya epistylidis 

 X250 (Stokes); c, T. salparum, X170 (Collin); d, T. columbiae, X200 

 (Wailes); e, T. micropteri, X650 (Davis); f, Erastophrya chattoni (Fanre- 

 Fremiet) ; g, Astrophrya arenaria, X65 (Awerinzew) ; h, Lernaeophrya capi- 

 tata, X35 (P6rez); i, Dendrosomides paguri, X200 (Collin). 



