Family:
Genus: Free-living; skeleton with or without coat; spicules included in a coat more or less visible; radial siliceous spicules; ordered spicules (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Mucilaginous envelope with spindle-shaped or discoidal spicules which extend normally outwards along pseudopodia (Kudo, 1966).

Raphidiophrys sp. 1 clips Higashi-hiroshima Hiroshima, 1998

Raphidiophrys sp. 3 clips Shinrin-koen Namegawa Saitama, 1998

Raphidiophrys sp. 5 clips Shinrin-koen Namegawa Saitama, 1998

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