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Description:

Codosiga botrytis (Ehrenberg) Kent, 1880. Cells are 3-5 x 5-15 microns long, cells are ovoid or spherical with posterior thin stalk. The cell body, and a small part of the stalk, is enclosed in a thin lorica which is barely visible in the light microscope. Two or more cells may be attached by short individual stalks to a common stalk. The cells may break away from the stalk and swim freely, in this state numerous short thin pseudopodia radiate from the cell posterior.