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 μm long (Kahl, 1930).
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V. nebulifera
75 x 38 μm
peristome 57 μm
Kurome river
Asaka
Saitama, 2004
V. nebulifera
75 x 31 μm
peristome 56 μm
Saitama, 1999
V. nebulifera
78 x 45 μm
peristome 80 μm
Higashi-sano
Hakuba
Nagano, 2004
V. nebulifera
65 x 35 μm
peristome 53 μm
Riverside green l.
Sawara
Chiba, 2004
V. nebulifera ?
70 x 38 μm
peristome 59 μm
Igashira park
Mooka
Tochigi, 2006
V. nebulifera
58 x 23 μm
peristome 39 μm
Saitama, 2001
V. nebulifera ?
66 x 32 μm
peristome 48 μm
Tenbo marsh
Tsugaike highland
Nagano, 2005
V. nebulifera ?
85 x 35 μm
peristome 50 μm
Kumakubo
Nasu-shiobara
Tochigi, 2005
V. nebulifera ?
μm
peristome μm
Azami-ike 1
Norikura highland
Nagano, 2007Similar Genus ->> Carchesium
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