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 43 μm long (Kahl, 1930).

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V. cylindrica 44 x μm stalk long Matsumoto Nagano, 2001

V. cylindrica 35 x 42 μm Kumakubo Nasu-shiobara Tochigi, 2005

V. cylindrica ? 94 μm Ichikawa Chiba, 2001

V. cylindrica ? 94 μm Shin-Akitsu Higashi-Murayama Tokyo, 2004

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