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Lobosea: Testacealobosia: Arcellinida: Difflugiidae

Difflugia pyriformis
Ehrenberg, 1838

Difflugia pyriformis Genus: Pseudostome lacks lobed collar; test round or oval in cross-section; pseudostome relatively large, with or lacking a collar (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: 45-50 μm long for small varieties, 100-600 μm long for large varieties; 25-30 μm wide (test diam.), small; 70-350 μm wide, large; test flask-shaped, base round or polygonal, narrow tapered neck; chitinoid, large imbedded quartz grains; Symbiont, green alga (Kudo, 1966).

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Difflugia pyriformis or similar species, test 164 μm long, 80 μm wide (test diam.), L/W=2.1, pseudostome 30 μm diam., P/W=0.38, x 400, x 640, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima Pref., Japan, September 1998, 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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