Genus: Solitary or colonial; individuals with vase-like, hyaline, but sometimes, yellowish cellulose lorica, drawn out at its base; one to two lateral chromatophores (chloroplasts); usually with a stigma; in colonial forms daughter individuals remains attached to the inner margin of aperture of parent loricas and there secrete new loricas; (Kudo, 1966).
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D. sertularia
39 samples
lorica 18-40 μm
199?-2008
D. sertularia
39 samples
lorica 18-40 μm
199?-2008
Dinobryon sp.
D. sertularia ?
cell 15 x 7 μm
30-37 x 10-11 μm
Ukishima marsh
Tsugaike highland
Nagano, 2005
Dinobryon sp.
D. sertularia ?
lorica 30-45 x 9 μm
Oze s.k.m.
Oze-ga-hara
Gunma, 2006
D. cylindricum
var. palustre
cell 37 x 5 μm
lorica 60-65 x 7 μm
Akigase Park
Saitama, 2002
D. cylindricum
or D. sertularia ?
cell 18 x 5.5 μm
lorica 40-43 x 8 μm
Ushidome-ike
Norikura highland
Nagano, 2005
D. cylindricum
or D. sertularia ?
cell μm
lorica μm
Water reservoir
Sakura
Chiba, 2008
D. crenulatum ?
cell μm
lorica μm
Japan, 199?
D. divergens
5 samples
cell 15-17 μm
lorica 38-47 μm
2003-2008