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Oligohymenophorea: Peritrichia: Sessilida: Vorticellidae

Carchesium
Ehrenberg, 1830

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: Colonial; each zooid has a separately contractile myoneme (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Each animal has its own myoneme, can contract singly without causing colony to contract (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
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Carchesium
C. polypinum
100 μm
Japan, 1997
Carchesium
C. polypinum
100 μm
Japan, 1997
Carchesium
C. polypinum
78 x 63 μm
Saitama, 1999
Carchesium
C. polypinum
78 μm
Tochigi, 2001
Carchesium
C. polypinum
75 x 40 μm
Ta river
Ishibashi
Tochigi, 2004
Carchesium
Carchesium sp.
70 μm
Gumma, 2001
Carchesium
Carchesium sp.
μm
Japan, 199?
Carchesium
Carchesium sp.
50 x 40 μm
near Momijidani
Shiobara
Tochigi, 2004
Carchesium
C. polypinum
80 x 48 μm
Maruyama Park
Ageo
Saitama, 2006

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