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Heliozoea: Centrohelida

Raphidiophrys pallida
Schultze, 1874

Raphidiophrys pallida 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).
Species: Outer gelatinous envelope crowded with curved lenticular spicules, forming accumulations around pseudopodia; diameter 50-60 μm; nucleus 12-15 μm in diamete; spicules 20 μm long (Kudo, 1966).


Raphidiophrys pallida, fed on Chlorogonium elongatum, cell body up to 84 μm diam., axopods (pseudopods) 62 μm long, curved lenticular spicules 22 μm long, x 400, x 200, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
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