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Acantharean skeleton, the skeletal material is strontium sulphate - and there are normally 20 radiating spicules but they may give rise to side branches to form more elaborate structures. The acantharea are one of the four types of large amoebae which occur in the marine water column. Scanning electron micrograph by A. F. Michaels.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Nucletmycea
- Fungi (mushrooms, lichens, molds, yeasts and relatives)
- Dikarya
- Ascomycota (sac fungi)
- Dothideomycetes
- Venturiales
- Venturiaceae
- Acantharia
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