Fig. 7. A–F in A Huge Diversity of Metopids (Ciliophora, Armophorea) in Soil from the Murray River Floodplain, Australia. II. Morphology and Morphogenesis of Lepidometopus platycephalus nov. gen., nov. spec.

Fig. 7. A–F. Lepidometopus platycephalus, ciliary pattern and nuclear apparatus of mid-dividers after protargol impregnation. Asterisks denote scattered dikinetids of perizonal rows 1 and 2 that migrate along the new adoral zone to assemble the opisthe's paroral membrane. Arrows point to two dorsolateral kineties which migrate towards the opisthe's perizonal stripe to become rows 4' and 5'. Arrowheads mark newly formed ciliary rows left of opisthe's adoral zone. CH – chromosomes; F – fibres; MA – macronucleus; MI – micronucleus; OAZP – opisthe's adoral zone; OPM – opisthe's paroral membrane; PAZP – proter's adoral zone; PD – preoral dome; PPM – proter's paroral membrane; PS – perizonal stripe rows. Scale bars: 20 µm.