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Heliozoea: Rotosphaerida
-> Rhizopoda: Filosea: Cristdiscoidida

 Rabdiophrys sp.
Rainer, 1968

Rabdiophrys Genus: Outer envelop made of two kinds of siliceous element; tangential scales or pearls and radial spicules (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species:
Similar genus ->> Nuclearia;

Rabdiophrys sp. (? or Heterophrys Heterophryidae), cell body spherical, about 50 μm in diam., x 400, Japan, 1997 by Y. Tsukii
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Heterophrys Archer: Spherical; mucilaginous envelope thick; with numerous radial, chitinous spicules which project beyond periphery; nucleus eccentric; axial filaments originate in a central granule (Kudo, 2966).

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