Aspidiophorus oculifer

Length ( bottle ):
115 µm - 135 µm

Width:


Width of the head ( five-lobed ):


µm

Length of the furca:
15 µm - 17 µm

Adhessive tubes (terminal buttoned):
50% of furca

Pharyx ( dumbbell-shaped ):
33 µm - 46 µm

Diameter of the mouth ( around ):
5 µm

Dorsal scales:
17-22 rows, each with 36-41 small peduncle scales; end plates 2.5-4 µm; peduncles 0.6-1 µm; no spines

Ventral scales:
2 keeled and spined terminal plates (6.5-10.5µm); 5-12 rows of 1.5-3µm long keels

Oecology:
Bog; mud dweller

Similar species:
well delimited by spination of the ventral intercilliary field and pseudocells

Particularities:
2 pseudocells, one-piece X-organ