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Fig. 7 in New discoveries of the genus Thuricola Kent, 1881 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia, Vaginicolidae), with descriptions of three poorly known species from China

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Fig. 7. Photomicrographs of Thuricola folliculata in vivo (A–M) and after protargol staining (N–Q). (A–E) Narrow side views of different individuals with two zooids (A–C, E) and single zooid (D), arrows mark contractile vacuole. (F, G) Wide side views of lorica, arrows mark the junctional membrane. (H, I) Narrow side views of lorica, arrows in H mark valves, arrowheads in H mark posterior bulge of lorica, arrowheads in (I) mark anterior bulge of lorica. (J, K) Aperture of lorica. (L) Posterior portion of lorica, arrowheads mark junctional membrane. (M) Detail of pellicle, to show the transverse striations, arrow marks the aboral trochal band. (N, O) Ciliature of two specimens. (P, Q) Oral ciliature. EM1–2, epistomial membrane 1–2; G, germinal kinety; H, haplokinety; Ma, macronucleus; P1–3, infundibular polykineties 1–3; TB, trochal band. Scale bars = 100 μm.

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Published as part of Lu, Borong, Ji, Daode, Sheng, Yalan, Song, Weibo, Hu, Xiaozhong, Chen, Xiangrui & Al-Rasheid, Khaled A.S., 2018, New discoveries of the genus Thuricola Kent, 1881 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia, Vaginicolidae), with descriptions of three poorly known species from China, pp. 123-143 in Acta Protozoologica 57 (2) on page 135, DOI: 10.4467/16890027AP.18.011.8985, http://zenodo.org/record/12637569

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