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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

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Karl G. Grell; Thalassomyxa canariensis n. sp. from a Tide Pool of Tenerife (Canary Islands). Arch.Protistenk 144:319-324, 1994

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The new species, Thalassomyxa canariensis n. sp. from a tide pool on the northeastern coast of Tenerife (Canary Islands) differs from Thalassomyxa jamaicensis (Grell, 1992) by the spongy structure of its cytoplasm that becomes discernibe in the motile stages after feeding with diatoms. The obligatory change of two phases and the capability of the resting stages to undergo binary divisions before and multipartite fissions (plasmotomy) after fusion are similar in both species.