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siliceous scales

Image of Polyplacocystis

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Detail of the siliceous scales of the centroheliozoan, Polyplacocystis symmetrica (Penard, 1904) Mikrjukov, 1996. An axopodium with a bead-like extrusome is visible below the scale to the viewer's left. Collected from a freshwater aquaculture pond near Boise, Idaho. November 2003. DIC.

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William Bourland
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