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...
- Actinophrys is a genus of heliozoa, amoeboid unicellular organisms with many axopodial filaments that radiate out of their cell. It contains one of the...
- proteromonad flagellates (all endobionts in other organisms); the actinophryid Heliozoa, and oomycetes. The tripartite hairs characteristic of the group have been...
- 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...
- Cryptista and "N.N.", Haptista corresponds to the above phyla Haptophyta and Heliozoa): Molecular trees have had difficulty resolving relationships between the...
- Historically, nucleariids were included among the heliozoa as the Rotosphaerida because both they and heliozoa had rounded bodies and radiating pseudopodia...
- Some better-known types of animalcule include: Actinophrys, and other heliozoa, termed sun animalcules. Amoeba, termed Proteus animalcules. Noctiluca...
- most of the cell's energy. Some of this organization is found among the heliozoa, but those lack central capsules and only produce simple scales and spines...