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Description of Clathrella

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Medium sized (about 50 µm) amoeboid organism living in a tight fitting unstalked siliceous lorica from which branched and granulated pseudopodia arise. With one nucleus. Reported from a freshwater site in Northern Europe, consuming diatoms and other detritus. Type species. C. foreli.
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