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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Ascoglena

Ascoglena Stein, 1878 (ref. ID; 4950)

[ref. ID; 1618]
Encased in a flexible, colorless to brown lorica, attached with its base to foreign object; solitary; without stalk; body ovoidal, plastic; attached to test with its posterior end; a single flagellum; a stigma; numerous chromatophores discoid; with or without pyrenoids; reproduction as in Trachelomonas; fresh water. (ref. ID; 1618)
  1. Ascoglena amphoroides (France) Lemmermann (ref. ID; 4950)
  2. Ascoglena vaginicola Stein (ref. ID; 1618, 3517, 4950)
  3. Ascoglena viridis Popova (ref. ID; 3517)

Ascoglena vaginicola Stein (ref. ID; 1618, 3517, 4950)

Measurements

Lorica about 43 by 15 um. (ref. ID; 1618)