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Gromia

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  • Noctiluca scintillans
    In protozoan: Annotated classification

    Gromia Cytoplasm is nongranular. Test is organic. Filopodia are not reticulate. Radiolaria Produce “skeletons” made of amorphous silica or, in the acantharians, made of strontium sulfate. Filopods are reinforced by microtubules. Amoebozoa

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rhizopod

organism
Also known as: Rhizopoda, Rhizopodea, rhizopod sarcodine
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Gromia

rhizopod, any member of the protozoan superclass Rhizopoda. Three types of pseudopodia (cytoplasmic extensions) used in locomotion and digestion are found in members of this superclass: (1) long, thin reticulopodia, which fuse into a network; (2) nonfusing filopodia, similar to reticulopodia; and (3) blunt and fingerlike lobopodia (the pseudopodia formed by Amoeba). Tests (protective shells) are common. For information on important members of the superclass, see amoeba; Entamoeba; foraminiferan; testacean.

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