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Oligohymenophorea: Peritrichia: Sessilida: Vaginicolidae

 Pyxicola carteri
Kent, 1881

Pyxicola Genus: Lorica attached aborally by stalk; operculum attached just behind peristomal border (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Body attached posteriorly to a lorica; a discoidal corneous operculum developed beneath border of peristome (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Lorica 70 μm long (Kahl, 1930).
Similar Genus ->> Thuricola; Vaginicola; Cothurnia; Platycola

Pyxicola carteri (or P. constricta ?), cell body μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Kiyasse-Hanyu (Mitagaya Agriculture Park), Mitagaya, Hanyu city, Saitama Pref., Japan, May 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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