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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C. polypinum 100 μm Japan, 1997	C. polypinum 100 μm Japan, 1997	C. polypinum 78 x 63 μm Saitama, 1999	C. polypinum 78 μm Tochigi, 2001
C. polypinum 75 x 40 μm Ta river Ishibashi Tochigi, 2004	Carchesium sp. 70 μm Gumma, 2001	Carchesium sp. μm Japan, 199?	Carchesium sp. 50 x 40 μm near Momijidani Shiobara Tochigi, 2004
C. polypinum 80 x 48 μm Maruyama Park Ageo Saitama, 2006

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