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Lobosea: Testacealobosia: Arcellinida: Lesquereusiidae (formerly Paraquadrulidae)

 Quadrulella symmetrica
Wallich 1863
Quadrula symmetrica Wallich (Kudo 1966)
Quadrula symmetrica (Wallich) F. E. Schulze (Cash 1909)

Quadrulella Genus: Test flask-shaped (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Test variable in size, about 96 μm long, 60-70 μm wide, 40 μm in thickness; frontal view pyriform, pseudostome slightly convex, dorsoventrally compressed; transparent chitinous plates arranged in series across the surface (Cash, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. II, 1909).

Quadrulella symmetrica Wallich ?, test 72 μm long, 43 μm wide, L/W=, pseudostome 19 μm wide, scales rectangular (3 x 3 - 10 x 10 μm), x 640, Watasuge marsh (or bog), Tsugaike highland (Tsugaike Natural Park), Otari village, Nagano Pref., Japan, July 3, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Quadrulella Quadrulella Quadrulella Quadrulella

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