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Description:
Pleurosigma (ploor-a-sig-ma) medium to large size pennate diatom, common in sediments. With browny coloured plastid located centrally, refractile globules are lipid inclusions. The cell is located within a shell (frustule) made of silica (glass) and the patterns of pores and strengthening elements is used to distinguish different taxa. Differential interference contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Litostomatea
- Haptoria
- Pleurostomatida
- Litonotidae
- Lionotus
- Lionotus pleurosigma
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