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Collozoum, a colonial radiolarian, the bright spots being the central capsules of the organisms which make up the colony. Up to 5000 capsules may be present in a colony. These colonies are like long sausages up to several centimetres in length. The colony has a segmented appearance because the components of the colony lie in a matrix around large vacuoles or alveoli . This is an example of one of the four types of large amoebae which is common in the marine water column. Image by N. R. Swanberg.
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Spongostaurus (spong-owe-store-us) - a large solitary radiolarian with linked sausage-shaped arms, to give a star-like appearance. This is an example of one of the four types of large amoebae which is common in the marine water column. Dark ground image by N. R. Swanberg.
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Calocyclas monumentum.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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Each shell contains numerous large granules
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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The older coenobium is articulated, the younger one not. Red dots are central capsules
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Haeckels fiugure legend reads .... a small piece of the surface of a living coenobium, seen from the surface. Only four individuals are visible, the central capsule of which contains numerous small nuclei and a central oil-globule. The including spherical lattice-shell is provided with a few (one to four) larger apertures, which are prolonged into short cylindrical tubules. Through these latter radiate bundles of fine pseudopodia, branching and anastomosing, and forming a fine sarcode network between the alveoles of the calymma. On the surface of the alveolated jelly-sphere the pseudopodia form a dense radiating zone. Xanthella or yellow cells are everywhere scattered.
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A living spumellarian radiolarian (Spongaster sp.) that secretes a quadrangular, siliceous, spongiose shell enclosing the central capsule. The greenish tint is caused by numerous algal symbionts enclosed by the peripheral cytoplasm. A halo of cytoplasmic strands (axopodia) radiates from the surface. The axopodia are used to capture food, usually small crustacea (e.g. copepods) or algae.
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Haeckels figure legend reads: A small coenobium or colony in the state of alveolation, forming a jelly-sphere, composed of a great number of capsulated individuals, densely aggregated. Each central capsule contains an oil-globule, and is enclosed by a spherical lattice-shell, which bears a few (one to four) short cylindrical tubules. Each shell is again enveloped by a membranous polyhedral alveole and separated from it by structureless jelly. The thick cortical jelly-envelope, which surrounds the whole spherical colony, exhibits a fine radial striation, produced by radiating pseudopodia; many xanthella or yellow cells are scattered in the calymma.
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Observed in a sample from the south east equatorial Pacific - huge (300 microns). Image by John Dolan.