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Lobosea: Testacealobosia: Arcellinida: Difflugiidae

Difflugia corona
Wallich, 1864

Difflugia corona Genus: Pseudostome lacks lobed collar; test round or oval in cross-section; pseudostome relatively large, with or lacking a collar (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: 100-300 μm long; 120-320 μm wide (diam.); with up to 15 spines at level of broadest diam as a crown; pseudostome round, 4-20 dentate lobes, 50-150 μm diam. (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Test ovoid to spheroid, circular in cross-section; crown broadly rounded, with a variable number of spines; aperture (pseudostome) more or less convex in profile, central and its border multidentate or multlobate; test with fine sand-grains, opaque; 180-230 μm long, about 150 μm wide (diam.) (Kudo, 1966).


Difflugia corona, test 188 μm in diam., 188 μm high, pseudostome 81 μm diam., x 200, x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
scale 100 μm scale 200 μm scale 300 μm; x 200 : scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400


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