Family: Scales round to elliptical, thin.
Genus: Test round or oval in cross-section; pseudostome terminal with dentate scales.
Species: Test braodly oviform or pyriform, dorso-ventrally compressed, transverse section ellioptical, 45-100 μm long, 30-60 μm wide; many hairly projections at periphery; pseudostome circular (cf. E. ciliata, E. compressa) bordered by 10-14 denticulated, thickened scales, 12-23 μm; body scales 7-10.5 μm long, 4.5-5.5 μm wide (Cash & Wailes, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. III, 1915).

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E. strigosa ? 66,75 x μm Test; L/W=1.5-1.7 s. μm Scale; L/W= Onnenai Kushiro marsh Hokkaido, 2005	E. strigosa 84 x 45 μm Test; L/W= Hakkoda Gourd L. Hakkoda mt. Aomori, 2006	E. strigosa μm Test; L/W= Ryugahara m.4 Yuri-Honjo Akita, 2008	E. strigosa 85 x 50 μm Test; L/W=1.7 Iroha-numa 2 Zao mountain Yamagata, 2006
E. strigosa 73 x 40 μm Test; L/W=1.8 s. 9 x 5 μm Scale; L/W= Nidanuma Tsuchiyu-onsen Fukushima, 2005	E. strigosa 75 x 40 μm Test; L/W=1.9 Midagahara Tate-yama Toyama, 2006	E. strigosa 68 x 43 μm Test; L/W=1.6 s. 8 x 4 μm Scale; L/W= Numa-no-hara m. Madarao highland Niigata, 2005	E. strigosa 68 x 40 μm Test; L/W=1.7 s. 7 x 3 μm Scale; L/W= Hakama marsh Madarao highland Niigata, 2005
E. strigosa or E. ciliata ? 80 x 39 μm Test; L/W=2.1 s. 10 x 4.5 μm Scale; L/W= Tanohara marsh Shiga highland Nagano, 2005

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