frustule
Description:
Cocconeis (cock-owe-neigh-us) one isolated valve seen from valve view, the perforations in this siliceous shell allow the cells which normally live within to exchange nutrients etc. with the outside world. Phase contrast micrograph.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Ochrophyta (Ochrophyte)
- Bacillariophyta (diatoms)
- Bacillariophycidae
- Cocconeidales
- Cocconeidaceae
- Cocconeis
- Oomycota (oomycetes)
- Diatomista
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