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Family OPHRYOGLENIDAE Kent, 1881

With characteristics of suborder s.s. (above). Fresh-water, histophagous (occasionally parasitic) forms, with slender, inconspicuous theronts; number of tomites (produced within cyst) varies, 4-128.

Ophryoglena Ehrenberg, 1831.
Many species.


Protophryoglena Mugard, 1949
(syn. of Ophryoglena?).
Single species.