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Description:
Portrait of Acanthocystis aculeata HERTWIG & LESSER, 1874, a heliozoan with long thin radiating axopodia containing bead-like extrusomes and layered surface plates with shorter curved sharp projecting spines. This individual contains zoochlorellae. From freshwater pond near Boise, Idaho. Brightfield.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Haptista
- Centroplasthelida (Centrohelid)
- Panacanthocystida
- Acanthocystida
- Acanthocystidae
- Acanthocystis
- Acanthocystis aculeata
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- William Bourland
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