Family: Body often reniform; with ciliary rows making asymmetrical patterns; division within reproductive cysts (Kudo,1966).
Genus: Ovoid, inhabiting a mucilaginous sac or lorica; vestibulum large and shallow, occupying 1/3 of ventral surface; on the right of the vestibulum lie a short row of long curved cilia; a macronucleus; contractile vacuole subterminal (Carey, 1992).

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C. mucicola 33-39 x 14-15 μm Konuma Sakado Saitama, 2004	C. mucicola 35 x 13 μm near Town Hall Shobu town Saitama, 2004	C. mucicola 34 x 15 μm Uruguay, 1999	C. mucicola 30 x 9 μm Japan, 1998
C. mucicola 27 x 9 μm Japan, 1998	C. mucicola 24 x 9 μm Japan, 1998	C. mucicola 28 x 10 μm Higashi-Urawa Saitama, 2001	C. mucicola cell μm Japan, 1999
Cyrtolophosis sp. 39 x 12 μm Ushidome-ike Norikura highland Nagano, 2005	Cyrtolophosis sp. 34 x 9 μm cell body long cytostome short USA, 1999	Cyrtolophosis sp. 27 x 7 μm Saitama, 1999	Cyrtolophosis sp. 27 x 9 μm Abiko Chiba, 2000
Cyrtolophosis sp. 25 x 9 μm Sue-machi Fukuoka, 2001	Cyrtolophosis sp. 24 x 9 μm Todoroki g.l. Kawasaki Kanawaga, 2004	Cyrtolophosis sp. 20 x 9 μm Higashi-hiroshima Hiroshima, 1998	Cyrtolophosis sp. 21 x 11 μm Japan, 1998
Cyrtolophosis sp. 25 x 11 μm Saitama, 1999	Cyrtolophosis sp. cell μm Hiroshima, 1998	Cyrtolophosis sp. 32 x 15 μm Ogose town Saitama, 2003	C. mucicola 27 x 9 μm Naruto Chiba, 2003
Cyrtolophosis sp. 31 x 10 μm Shibu-ike Shiga highland Nagano, 2005	Cyrtolophosis sp. 31 x 9 μm Watasuge marsh Tsugaike highland Nagano, 2005	Cyrtolophosis sp. 23 x 8 μm Senjo-ga-hara Nikko Tochigi, 2003	Cyrtolophosis sp. 27 x 10 μm Onnenai Kushiro marsh Hokkaido, 2005
Cyrtolophosis sp. 34 x 18 μm Hazama marsh Ashikaga Tochigi, 2006

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