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Heliozoea: Centrohelida

 Sphaerastrum fockei
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= Raphidiophrys elegans Hertwig & Lesser 1874 emend. Penard 1904 ?

Sphaerastrum fockei Genus: Greater part of axopodia and cell body covered by a thick gelatinous mantle (Kudo, 1966).
Species: About 30 μm in diameter; often colonial (Kudo, 1966).

Sphaerastrum fockei, cytoplasm exchange observed, cell body spherical, μm in diam., x 400, x 640, Torinome kasen park, Kuroiso, Tochigi Pref., Japan, September 1998, by Y. Tsukii
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