Family: Loricate; with or without stalk; body slender, extensible, attached in lorica aborally; macronucleus long (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Lorica attached aborally (no stalk), similar to Thuricola but lacks valve (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Lorica is vase-like, upright and attached at the end (How to know the protozoa, 1979).

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V. gigantea 212 μm Japan, 1999	V. gigantea 176 μm Saitama, 2001	V. gigantea lorica 140 μm Shijuhachi-ike 4 Shiga highland Nagano, 2007	Vaginicola sp. μm Miyashiro Saitama, 2003
Vaginicola sp. lorica 220 x 60 μm Imori pond Myoko highland Niigata, 2004	Vaginicola sp. lorica 212 x 55 μm Izumo Shrine Izumo Shimane, 2006	Vaginicola sp. lorica 115 x 35 μm cell 155 x 12 μm Karakemi marsh Yasaka Nagano, 2005	Vaginicola sp. lorica 120 x 36 μm cell μm Onnenai Kushiro marsh Nagano, 2005

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