Order: Body in a perforated organic capsule; usually on a stalk; with kinetocysts (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Body fills porous siliceous envelope, a pseudopodium (axopodium) through each pore; on a stalk (How to know the protozoa, 1979). Organic capsule with polygonal pores; cell body near the capsule; colonial or single (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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C. elegans capsule 27 μm Onnenai Kushiro marsh Hokkaido, 2005	C. elegans capsule 42 μm Kenashitai Hakkoda mountain Aomori, 2005	C. elegans capsule 38 μm near suiren-numa Hakkoda mountain Aomori, 2006	C. elegans capsule μm Shibayachi marsh Odate Akita, 2007
C. elegans capsule 35 μm Akebono marsh Tsuchiyu-onsen Fukushima, 2005	C. elegans ? capsule 27 μm Omine-numa Minakami Gunma, 2006
C. elegans dividing cells Akigase park Saitama, 1998 Movies	C. elegans capsule 42 μm Imori pond Myoko highland Niigata, 2004	C. elegans cell 22-26 μm capsule 40-42 μm Higashi-sano Hakuba Nagano, 2004	C. elegans capsule 41 μm Tanohara marsh Shiga highland Nagano, 2006
C. elegans capsule μm Water reservoir Iiyama Nagano, 2008	C. elegans cell μm Higashi-hiroshima Hiroshima, 1998 Movies	C. elegans capsule 40 μm near Yamaguchi Univ. Yamaguchi, 2004
C. elegans capsule 27 μm Kashibaru m.4 Karatsu Saga, 2006	C. elegans capsule 27 μm Kashibaru m Karatsu Saga, 2008	C. elegans envelope dev. cell 28 μm capsule 40 μm Japan, 1998	C. elegans cell μm Japan, 1998

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