Cyclophrya magna Gonnert, 1935

Fig. 2 b.

Suctorian with large, flattened disc-shaped body. Macronucleus ribbon-like, convoluted, ramified. There are four (rarely five) bundles of long, contractile, clavate tentacles near the edge of body. There are from 4 to 8 contractile vacuoles. Reproduction by inversogemmic budding.

Dimensions: diameter of body 90–108; length of tentacles 14–40. Previous measurements: diameter of body until 190; length of tentacles until 500.

Material examined. Found as epibiont of: Nepa cinerea . Ukraine. Snov river near village Gorsk, Chernigov region. 14.06.1991.

Additional records. Flowing water, slides (Matthes et al. 1988).