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Chrysophyceae: Ochromonadales: Dinobryaceae

Dinobryon divergens

Dinobryon divergens 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 divergens, lorica 47 μm long, 9 μm wide, cell body 17 μm long, 7 μm wide, x 640, Jizoh-bori at Sannoh Park, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, January 9, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Dinobryon divergens Dinobryon divergens
lorica μm long, μm wide, x 640
Dinobryon Dinobryon


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