Definition of Heliozoa. Meaning of Heliozoa. Synonyms of Heliozoa

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Definition of Heliozoa

Heliozoa
Heliozoa He`li*o*zo"a, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? the sun + ? an animal.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.

Meaning of Heliozoa from wikipedia

- Heliozoa, commonly known as sun-animalcules, are microbial eukaryotes (protists) with stiff arms (axopodia) radiating from their spherical bodies, which...
- rhizochromulinid algae, actinomonad heterotrophic flagellates and actinophryid heliozoa. Alternative classifications treat the dictyochophytes as heterokont algae...
- The actinophryids are an order of heliozoa, a polyphyletic array of stramenopiles, having a close relationship with pedinellids and Ciliophrys. They are...
- The smallest organisms found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of organism size, including volume, m****, height, length, or genome...
- proteromonad flagellates (all endobionts in other organisms); the actinophryid Heliozoa, and oomycetes. The tripartite hairs characteristic of the group have been...
- Actinophrys is a genus of heliozoa, amoeboid unicellular organisms with many axopodial filaments that radiate out of their cell. It contains one of the...
- the Endohelea, a group of heterotrophic eukaryotes previously considered heliozoa. It is the only genus in the family Tetraheliidae and order Axomonadida...
- axopodia much simpler in structure than in visually similar protists (other 'heliozoa'). The generic name Microheliella, as well as the names of the family Microheliellidae...
- ISBN 0-521-30419-9. Mikryukov, K.A. (2001). Heliozoa as a component of marine microbenthos: a study of Heliozoa of the White Sea. Ophelia 54: 51–73. Wikispecies...
- many centrohelid heliozoa, synurophytes. The layer is often ****umed to have a protective role. In some, such as the actinophryid heliozoa, the scales only...