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Heliozoea: Centrohelida

 Raphidiophrys sp.
Archer, 1876

Raphidiophrys 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).
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Raphidiophrys, cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, Kannon-numa Forest Park (pond), Shimogo town, Fukushima Pref., Japan, July 10, 2005, collected by Eizaburo Tsukii, photo by Y. Tsukii
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