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Oligohymenophorea: Peritrichia: Sessilida: Vaginicolidae

Thuricola sp.
or Vaginicola sp.
Vaginicolidae identified by Axel Marten at Wasserwirtschaftsamt Freising, Germany

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).

Species:


Thuricola sp. or Vaginicola sp., Japan, 199? by H. Horikami
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Stentor muelleri Stentor muelleri Stentor muelleri Stentor muelleri


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