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Description:

Apheloecion conicoides Thomsen, Garrison and Kosman, 1997. Cells are solitary. The simple lorica is about 14 microns in overall length and consisting of a total of about 20 costal strips arranged to form a lorica chamber with 7 anterior projections (6-6.5 microns long) and a simple pedicel (about 6 microns). Costal strips forming projections narrow from base to tip. The posterior tip of the costal strip forming the pedicel is enlarged to form a triangular holdfast. The lorica chamber consists of 12 longitudinal costal strips (5-5.5 microns long) surmounted by a single transverse costa (diameter about 5 microns). Tectiform division.