with stalk

Description:
Poterioochromonas (poe-tear-ele-owe-moan-ass) stipitata, small chrysophyte alga with thin organic stalk expanding to an egg-cup like structure at its unattached end. Although this alga has a small chloroplast and is photosynthetic, it often relies upon engulfing bacteria as a source of energy. Phase contrast microscopy.
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- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Ochrophyta (Ochrophyte)
- Synurophyceae
- Ochromonadales
- Ochromonadaceae
- Poterioochromonas
- Poterioochromonas stipitata
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