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Heliozoea: Actinophryida

Actinophrys sol
Ehrenberg, 1830

Actinophrys Genus (Ehrenberg, 1830): Spheroidal; cytoplasm vacuolated, especially ectoplasm; nucleus central; one to many contractile vacuoles; axopodia straight, axial filaments terminate at surface of the nucleus (Kudo, 1966).
Species: Ectoplasm vacuolated; a large central nucleus; diameter average 40-50 μm (Kudo, 1966).


Actinophrys sol Ehrenberg, cell body spherical, about 90 μm in diam., axopodia up to 120 μm long, x 400, x 640, near Egawa wetland, Watarase-yusuichi (Watarase Wetland), Fujioka town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, March 30, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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