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Description:
Fibrocapsa (fie-bro-caps-a) is a raphidophyte flagellate. The raphidophytes are one of the subsets of stramenopiles with chloroplasts, and the plastids are typically discoidal and orange or yellow brown because of the predominance of chlorophylls a and c. With two flagella of similar length. This cell is more rounded than is usually evident in nature. Phase contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Ochrophyta (Ochrophyte)
- Raphidophyceae (raphidophytes)
- Chattonellales
- Chattonellaceae
- Fibrocapsa
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