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Chrysophyceae: Ochromonadales: Dynobryonaceae

 Stokesiella gracilis
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Stokesiella Family: With two unequal flagella; no pellicle and plastic; with or without a delicate test; solitary or colonial; free swimming or attached (Kudo, 1966).
Genus: Cells attached by a cytoplasmic thread to a stalked vase-like lorica; two contractile vacuoles (Kudo, 1966).
Similar genus --> > Bicoeca (Bicosoeca) (Mastigophora, Bicosoecida); Diploeca (Mastigophora, Choanoflagellida, Salpingoecidae)

Stokesiella gracilis ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Shirakawa, Fukushima Pref., Japan, October 1999, collected by H. Shiomizu, photo by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Stokesiella Stokesiella

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