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Granuloreticulosea: Monothalamida: Amphitremidae

Diplophrys archeri
Barker, 1868

Diplophrys Genus: Test with 2 pseudostomes; with thin, organic test (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Colonial or solitary; cell body spherical (8-20 μm in diam.), covered with a delicate hyaline membrane; two pseudostomes situated at or near two opposite poles; cytoplasm colorless, transparent, finely granular, filling the envelope (test) except near the two pseudostomes; a single nucleus with a nucleolus; one large, or two or three small, colored, oil-like globules present; pseudopodia extremely attenuate, radiating, straight or dichotomously branced, emanating each pseudostome; reproduction by fission or tetrad division


Diplophrys, cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, Fujimitashiro, Oze-ga-hara (Oze marsh), Katashina village, Gunma Pref., Japan, August 3, 2008 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Diplophrys Diplophrys Diplophrys

Images of collecting locality: Fujimitashiro, Oze-ga-hara (Oze marsh), Katashina village, Gunma Pref., Japan, August 3, 2008 by Y. Tsukii


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