Biology:Myxosphaera

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Short description: Genus of radiolarian

Myxosphaera
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Retaria
Class: Polycystinea
Order: Nassellaria
Family: Collozoidae
Subfamily: Collosphaeridae
Genus: Myxosphaera
Brandt, 1885
Species

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Myxosphaera is a radiolarian genus in the Collosphaeridae. The genus may contain bioluminescent species.[1][2] It is a genus of colonial radiolarians (as opposed to solitary).[3]

Species

The following species are known (incomplete list):[2]

  • Myxosphaera coerulea Haeckel

References

  1. Herring, Peter J. (1987). "Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence 1 (3): 147–163. doi:10.1002/bio.1170010303. PMID 3503524. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Template:Cite tech report
  3. Latz, Michael I.; Frank, Tamara M.; Case, James F.; Swift, Elijah; Bidigare, Robert R. (1987). "Bioluminescence of colonial radiolaria in the western Sargasso Sea". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 109 (1): 25–38. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(87)90183-3. ISSN 0022-0981. 

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