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Heliozoea: Centrohelida

Acanthocystis sp.

Acanthocystis turfacea Genus: Free-living; skeleton with or without coat; cuirass made of scales and of the basal part of the spicules; coat indistinguishable (Illustrated Guide, 1985). Siliceous scales arranged tangentially and radiating siliceous spines with pointed or bifurcated ends; (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
Other endosymbioses


Acanthocystis sp., cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, Kareki-numa marsh, Nikko city (formerly Fujiwara town), Tochigi Pref., Japan, August 2, 2008, collected by Eizaburo Tsukii, photo by Y. Tsukii
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