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Chrysophyceae: Ochromonadales: Dinobryaceae

Dinobryon crenulatum
W. et G.S. West

Dinobryon Genus: Solitary or colonial; individuals with vase-like, hyaline, but sometimes, yellowish cellulose lorica, drawn out at its base; one to two lateral chromatophores (chloroplasts); usually with a stigma; in colonial forms daughter individuals remains attached to the inner margin of aperture of parent loricas and there secrete new loricas; (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
Similar Genus ->> Hyalobryon; Bicoeca petiolata


Dinobryon crenulatum ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, by N. Sugiyama
Dinobryon


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