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Oligohymenophorea: Peritrichia: Sessilida: Vaginicolidae

 Pyxicola sp.
Kent

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:
Similar Genus ->> Thuricola; Vaginicola; Cothurnia; Platycola

Pyxicola pusilla or similar species, cell body 52 μm long, lorica with very short lorica 50 μm long, 23 μm wide, stalk, x 400, x 640, Japan, 1998 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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