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Description:
Mallomonas (ma-la-moan-ass) is a synurophyte alga, traditionally regarded as a chrysophyte or related to the chrysophytes, but distinguished by the presence of extracellular siliceous scales. This genus has large chlorophyll a and c containing plastids, an apical flagellum, and a coating of slipper shaped scales each of which has a long projecting spine. Differential interference contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Ochrophyta (Ochrophyte)
- Synurales (synurids)
- Mallomonadaceae
- Mallomonas
- Oomycota (oomycetes)
- Chrysista
- Chrysophyceae (golden algae)
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