Amphileptus fusiformis Song & Wilbert, 1989

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 : 506

Amphileptus fusiformis Song & Wilbert, 1989

Amphileptus fusiformis — Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013b: 529.

Main morphological characters (according to Song & Wilbert 1989). Size 45–60 × 15–20 µm in vivo. Body broadly fusiform. Two macronuclear nodules with a single micronucleus in between. Several contractile vacuoles forming a ventral and a dorsal row. Extrusomes rod-like, 6–7 µm long, scattered in cytoplasm and gathered to bundles in tail. Somatic ciliary pattern Amphileptus -like; 10–14 right and about 6 left kineties.

Distribution. This species has been recorded only at one locality, i.e., in the sediment from the Zubrovica stream, Low Tatra Mts ( Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013b).