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Heliozoea: Centrohelida

Sphaerastrum fockei
Greeff
= Raphidiophrys elegans Hertwig & Lesser 1874 emend. Penard 1904 ?

Sphaerastrum fockei Genus: Greater part of axopodia and cell body covered by a thick gelatinous mantle (Kudo, 1966).
Species: About 30 μm in diameter; often colonial (Kudo, 1966).


Sphaerastrum fockei Greeff ?, cell body 25 μm in diam., axoneme about 50 μm long, x 640, Akebono marsh (or bog), Nidanuma (Nitanuma), Tsuchiyu-onsen, Fukushima city, Fukushima Pref., Japan, October 28, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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