Fig. 3 in New discoveries of the genus Thuricola Kent, 1881 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia, Vaginicolidae), with descriptions of three poorly known species from China

Fig. 3. Photomicrographs of Thuricola obconica from life (A–N) and after protargol staining (O–S). (A) Narrow side view of an individual with two zooids. (B) Narrow side view of an individual with single zooid. (C) Wide side view of an individual with two zooids. (D, E) Narrow side view of different individuals. (F–H) Narrow side view of different curved loricas. (I) Anterior portion of body, arrow marks contractile vacuole. (J) Posterior portion, arrowhead marks junctional membrane around the inner stalk. (K) Posterior portion, arrow marks the expanded lorica base, arrowheads mark the junctional membrane. (L) Wide side view of lorica, arrowhead marks the junctional membrane. (M) Narrow side view of anterior portion of lorica, arrow marks valve. (N) Detail of pellicle, arrowhead marks aboral trochal band. (O–Q) Ciliature of three specimens, arrow marks trochal band. (R) Oral ciliature, arrow marks the epistomial membrane 2. (S) Detail of infundibular polykineties 1–3. EM1, epistomial membrane 1; G, germinal kinety; H, haplokinety; Ma, macronucleus; P1–3, infundibular polykineties 1–3. Scale bars = 100 μm (A–H); 50 μm (O–Q).