Family: Tentacles, thick only at tips; in vase-like lorica; tentacles extend through 1 or more slits (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Many thin captate tentacles protrude through 5-8 stellately arranged distal slits of lorica (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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M. mystacina cell 40 x 46 μm Yokonuma Sakado Saitama, 2004	M. mystacina cell 24 x 21 μm lorica 67 x 39 μm Japan, 1999	M. mystacina cell 40 μm Hanasaki water p. Kazo Saitama, 2005	M. mystacina μm Naka-gawa k.p. NasuShiobara Tochigi, 2008
Metacineta sp.1 cell 36 x 40 μm lorica 48 μm Higashi-hiroshima Hiroshima, 1998

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