Main Content
< Top page

The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Microchoanostoma

Microchoanostoma Vuxanovici, 1963 (ref. ID; 2013)

Class Kinetofragminophora: Subclass Gymnostomata: Order Haptorida: (Incertae sedis) Family Enchelyidae (ref. ID; 2013)

[ref. ID; 2013]
Outline shape heart-like, laterally flattened. There is a short but mobile anterior snout supported by trichites upon which the apical oral aperture is situated. Body covered in longitudinal striations and is entirely and uniformly ciliated. Central macronucleus is reniform. Large terminal contractile vacuole. Based on report in Romania by Vuxanovici (1963) on a single example found in a sapropelic sample.
Quote; Colin R. Curds "British and other freshwater ciliated protozoa Part I Ciliophora: Kinetofragminophora" Cambridge University Press, 1982 (ref. ID; 2013)