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Hedraiophrys

genus / CENTROHELIDA / GYMNOSPHAERIDAE

Description

Cell usually a truncated cone attached to a substrate, with a vesicular 'ectoplasm' and a denser, granular 'endoplasm' . The cell is covered with microfibrillar mucus and numerous tangential sil iceous spicules which are as long or longer then the body diameter. There is a large , central axoplast, and the nucleus lies near the edge of the cell. May detach and float as spherical cells for a short period . With one marine species, H. hovassei, which contains numerous algal and bacterial symbionts. Reference : Febvre- Chevalier (1973). Chevalier, 1973).

Type species

Hedraiophrys hovassei Febvre- Chevalier, 1973

Figures

Figure 20
Fig. 20
Hedraiophrys hovassei (after Febvre-Chevalier, 1973).

Raw text

Cell usually a truncated cone attached to a
substrate, with a vesicular 'ectoplasm' and a
denser, granular 'endoplasm' . The cell is covered
with microfibrillar mucus and numerous
tangential sil iceous spicules which are as long or
longer then the body diameter. There is a large ,
central axoplast, and the nucleus lies near the
edge of the cell. May detach and float as spherical
cells for a short period . With one marine species,
H. hovassei, which contains numerous algal and
bacterial symbionts. Reference : Febvre-
Chevalier (1973).
Chevalier, 1973).