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Oligohymenophorea: Peritrichia: Vaginicolidae

 Thuricola folliculata
(O. F. Müller, 1786), Fromentel-Kent

Thuricola Genus: Lorica attached aborally (no stalk); valve closes obliquely as body retracts (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Cell body 160-200 μm long (Kahl, 1930).
Similar Genus ->> Pyxicola; Vaginicola; Cothurnia; Platycola

Thuricola folliculata, cell body 190 μm long, 14-20 μm wide, attached on a short stalk, x 100, x 200, x 400, x 640, Kyodo-shiryokan (Town Museum), Nishihara, Miyashiro town, Saitama Pref., Japan, April 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
x 100, x 200, x 400
Thuricola Thuricola Thuricola
x 640
Thuricola Thuricola Thuricola Thuricola

A larger cell, x 400, x 640
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Thuricola Thuricola Thuricola

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