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Skeletonema
caption This phase contrast image shows a number of fine threadlike spines protruding from the cell bodies, probably composed of chitin fibers known from i. e. Thalassiosira species, for slowing down sedimentation velocity.
author woelfib
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image sets   Marine and freshwater protist images