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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 μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Naruto town, Chiba Pref., Japan, September 2003 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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Sphaerastrum fockei Greeff, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Naruto town, Chiba Pref., Japan, September 2003 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
Sphaerastrum fockei Sphaerastrum fockei Sphaerastrum fockei Sphaerastrum fockei Sphaerastrum fockei


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