Alabasta kivuense  Gauthier-Lièvre & Thomas, 1961

Diagnosis: In frontal view, the test is finger-shaped with subparallel sides, the fundus part being hardly wider than the pseudostome; fundus rounded or sometimes slightly ogival; pseudostome arched and bordered by a more or less thickened and yellow chitinoid lip. In lateral view, highly compressed, with deeply indented pseudostome. Shell formed of irregular very transparant polygonal plates, embedded in a yellowish chitinoid cement, also very transparent.

Dimensions: According to Gauthier-Lièvre and Thomas (1961): Shell length 58—63 μm, width 18—22 μm, thickness 15 μm, pseudostome 13—15 μm wide.

Habitat:  in wet mosses, quite rare. Most of the specimens were slightly curved.

Geographical distribution: Former Belgian Congo, Kivu, between Lubéro and Butembo.