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: Solitary, but often gregarious; myoneme continuous within full length of stalk (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Cell body 45 μm long (Kahl, 1930).

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V. pulchra ? 80 x 40 μm peristome 55 μm Omoi river Oyama Tochigi, 2004	V. pulchra 70 x 38 μm peristome 50 μm Kabuto-yama Nishi-no-miya Hyogo, 2004	V. pulchra 50 x 32 μm peristome 40 μm Japan, 1998	V. pulchra ? 50 x 37 μm peristome 44 μm Nidanuma Tsuchiyu-onsen Fukushima, 2005
V. pulchra ? 39 x 27 μm peristome 34 μm Saitama, 1999	V. pulchra ?? 45 x μm peristome 36 μm near Torimiyama p. Kagami-ishi Fukushima, 2003	V. pulchra 55 x 33 μm peristome 35 μm Tane-ike Togakushi highland Nagano, 2006

Similar Genus ->> Carchesium
Similar Species (cell length μm) -> V. similis (60, 70); V. limnetis (60); V. smaragdina (65); V. floridensis (85);

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