Metopus palaeformides

Metopus palaeformides is a species of metopid first found in soil from the Murray River floodplain, Australia. It closely resembles Heterometopus palaeformis, but can be distinguished from its cogenerate species by the size of its body, number of adoral polykinetids and its oral area pattern.^[1]

Metopus palaeformides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Alveolata
Phylum:	Ciliophora
Class:	Armophorea
Order:	Metopida
Family:	Metopidae
Genus:	Metopus
Species:	M. palaeformides
Binomial name
Metopus palaeformides Vďačný & Foissner, 2016