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Lobosea: Testacealobosia: Arcellinida: Difflugina: Nebelidae

 Nebela marginata
Penard

Nebela carinata Family: Test usually more or less compressed; pseudostome narrowly oval or slit-like.
Genus: Test more or less flask-shaped, with more or less neck (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Test 95-115 μm long (Cash, British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa II, 1909).

Nebela marginata Penard (or Nebela carinata (Archer, 1867), Leidy 1879 ?), test 186 μm long, 118 μm wide, L/W=1.6, pseudostome 35 μm wide, P/W=, scales variable in shape and size, up to 7 μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Shimizu-daira, Nasu town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, September 10, 2005, collected by Eizaburo Tsukii, photo by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Nebela carinata (Archer) Leidy: Test 140-280 μm long, 90-170 μm wide, 40-80 μm in thickness; with flange compressed to thin shelf, usually not extended along neck, pseudostome 28-50 &956;m long, 12-15 μm wide (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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