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Oligohymenophorea: Peritrichia: Sessilida: Vaginicolidae

 Pyxicola pusilla
Wrzesniowski, 1870

Pyxicola Genus: Lorica attached aborally by stalk; operculum attached just behind peristomal border (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Body attached posteriorly to a lorica; a discoidal corneous operculum developed beneath border of peristome (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
Similar Genus ->> Thuricola; Vaginicola; Cothurnia; Platycola

Pyxicola pusilla or similar species, cell body 50 μm long, 18 μm wide, L/W=2.8, peristome 17 μm wide, lorica 45 μm long, 25 μm wide, L/W=1.8, x 640, near Oh-hashi (large bridge), Asa-kawa (Asa river), Hachioji city, Tokyo, Japan, March 26, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Pyxicola Pyxicola

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