Lecanophryella Dovgal 1985

Genus Lecanophryella Dovgal, 1985 Type species: Lecanophryella paraleptastaci Dovgal, 1985 Suctorian ciliates with unloricate, weakly laterally flattened cell body, with two or three well-developed actinophores equipped with thin, clavate, tentacles at the apical ends. Stalk, short, dense. Macronucleus spherical or elongated. Reproduction by vermigemmic budding with forming of swarmers that are devoid of ciliature.
Published as part of Chatterjee, Tapas, Dovgal, Igor, Nanajkar, Mandar & Bogati, Kalisa, 2019, Note on the genus Lecanophryella (Ciliophora: Suctorea) with description of a new species from west coast of India, pp. 494-500 in Zootaxa 4612 (4) on pages 495-496, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/3235870
{"references":["Dovgal, I. V. (1985) Lecanophryella paraleptastaci gen. et sp. n. (Vermigenea, Lecanophryidae). Zoologiceskiy Jurnal, LXIV (N 8), 1256 - 1259. [in Russian with English summary]"]}