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Chrysarachnion

Chrysarachnion Pascher (ref. ID; 1618)

[ref. ID; 1618]
Amoeboid organism; with a chromatophore, leucosin grain and contractile vacuole; many individuals arranged in a plane and connected by extremely fine rhizopods, the whole forming a cobweb network. Small animals are trapped by the net; chromatophores are small; nutrition both holopytic and holozoic; during division the chromatophore is often unevenly distributed so that many individuals without any chromatophore are produced; fresh water. (ref. ID; 1618)
  1. Chrysarachnion insidians Pascher (ref. ID; 1618)

Chrysarachnion insidians Pascher (ref. ID; 1618)

Descriptions

Highly amoeboid individuals 3-4 um in diameter; chromatophore pale yellowish brown, but becomes bluish green upon death of organisms; a leucosin grain and a contractile vacuole; colony made up of 200 or more individuals. (ref. ID; 1618)