Litonotus hirundo Penard, 1920

Vďačný, Peter & Rajter, Ľubomír, 2014, An annotated and revised checklist of pleurostome ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) from Slovakia, Central Europe, Zootaxa 3760 (4), pp. 501-521 : 514

Litonotus hirundo Penard, 1920

Litonotus hirundo — Rosa 1957: 228; Matis 1988: 58.

Main morphological characters (according to Kahl 1931). Length 60–80 µm in vivo. Body lanceolate with narrowly rounded posterior body end; left side vaulted with four longitudinal furrows. Two macronuclear nodules with a single micronucleus in between. Contractile vacuole shown as terminal, but described as subterminal. Extrusomes broadly fusiform, 3 µm long, scattered in cytoplasm and possibly also attached to oral bulge. Somatic ciliary pattern Litonotus -like; about 6 right kineties.

Distribution. This species was reported from soils with dense plant covers near Javorina in the Tatra National Park ( Rosa 1957) and from organic mud of activated sludge plants in the town of Bratislava ( Matis 1988).