Family: Solitary, gregarious, or colonial; most are aloricate, some form lorica; each zooid has its own, independently contractile myoneme in full length of stalk.
Genus: Solitary, but often gregarious; myoneme continuous within full length of stalk (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Cell body μm long (Kahl, 1930).

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V. nebulifera 75 x 38 μm peristome 57 μm Kurome river Asaka Saitama, 2004	V. nebulifera 75 x 31 μm peristome 56 μm Saitama, 1999	V. nebulifera 78 x 45 μm peristome 80 μm Higashi-sano Hakuba Nagano, 2004	V. nebulifera 65 x 35 μm peristome 53 μm Riverside green l. Sawara Chiba, 2004
V. nebulifera ? 70 x 38 μm peristome 59 μm Igashira park Mooka Tochigi, 2006	V. nebulifera 58 x 23 μm peristome 39 μm Saitama, 2001	V. nebulifera ? 66 x 32 μm peristome 48 μm Tenbo marsh Tsugaike highland Nagano, 2005	V. nebulifera ? 85 x 35 μm peristome 50 μm Kumakubo Nasu-shiobara Tochigi, 2005
V. nebulifera ? μm peristome μm Azami-ike 1 Norikura highland Nagano, 2007

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