Family: Free-floating or attached; with or without pedicel; solitary or colonical with clearly visible periplast or lorica; collar well developed, laterally encircling base of single flagellum; 2 or more contractile vacuoles posterior (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: With a vase-like chitinous lorica to which stalked or stalkless organism is attached; fresh or salt water; numerous species (Kudo, 1966). Transparent; ovoid; collar indistinct; in lorica (How to know the protozoa, 1979). Solitary or colonial; with firm lorica (theca) as a cup or tube; protoplast with 1 anterior flagellum encircled laterally by well-developed collar; contractile vacuoles posterior in fresh water species (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
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S. buetschlii
10 samples
lorica 16-19 μm
199?-2008
S. depressa
5 samples
lorica μm
2001-2005
S. urceolata
3 samples
lorica 15-60 μm
199?-2005
Salpingoeca sp.
6 samples
lorica μm
1998-2004
S. gracilis ?
4 samples
lorica 33-43 μm
2002-2008
S. collaris
lorica μm
O-ike park
Yabuki
Fukushima, 2003
Salpingoeca sp.
lorica μm
Omine-numa
Tsukiyono
Gunma, 2003
