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Description of Leucodictyon

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Large marine meroplasmodial organism, with discrete masses of cell bodies giving rise to a reticulum of fine pseudopodia with extrusomes.Body masses aggregate while feeding. Cytoplasm of cell bodies contained within fine organic lorica. Extrusomes resemble those of some small filopodial amoebae (Mikrjukov & Mylnikov, 1995), mitochondrial cristae said to be tubular. Some nuclei with rod-like fibrous inclusions. Has a distributive stage with two flagella of dissimilar lengths. These stages may swim or glide. One species described from marine sites in Japan.
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Leucodictyon

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Leucodictyon is a genus of cercozoa.

It includes the species Leucodictyon marinum.[1]

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  1. ^ "www.nies.go.jp". Retrieved 2009-06-26.
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Leucodictyon: Brief Summary

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Leucodictyon is a genus of cercozoa.

It includes the species Leucodictyon marinum.

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