Family: Loricate; with or without stalk; body slender, extensible, attached in lorica aborally; macronucleus long (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Lorica attached aborally (no stalk); valve closes obliquely as body retracts (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

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T. folliculata ? cell body on stalk 205 x 42 μm Dai Shobu town Saitama, 2004	T. folliculata cell body on stalk 181 x 46 μm Kanazawa Ishikawa, 1998	T. folliculata cell body on stalk 180-210 x 16 μm Zenko-ji Nagano, 2003	T. folliculata ? cell body on stalk 190 x 14-20 μm Miyashiro Saitama, 2003
T. folliculata cell body on stalk 181 x 50 μm Kanazawa Ishikawa, 1998	T. folliculata cell body on stalk ? 194 x 55 μm Kanazawa Ishikawa, 1998	T. folliculata cell body on stalk 181 x 46 μm Japan, 1999	T. folliculata 190 x 20 μm near Seaside b.g. Himi Toyama, 2006
T. folliculata ? μm Kiyasse-Hanyu Hanyu Saitama, 2003	T. folliculata ? 210 x 46 μm Kiyasse-Hanyu Hanyu Saitama, 2006	Thuricola sp. ? L. 115 x 30 μm Ushidome-ike Norikura highland Nagano, 2005	Thuricola sp. ? or Vaginicola ? μm Japan, 199?

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