Dictyocha

Dictyocha
D. speculum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Class: Dictyochophyceae
Order: Dictyochales
Family: Dictyochaceae
Genus: Dictyocha
Ehrenberg, 1837
Type species
Dictyocha speculum
Ehrenberg, 1837
Species
Synonyms
  • Hannaites Mandra, 1969
  • Akbuluta Özdikmen, 2009[1][2]

Dictyocha is a genus of silicoflagellates, marine photosynthetic unicellular protists that take the form of either flagellates or axopodial amoebae. Described by Ehrenberg in 1837, Dictyocha contains many important species of the marine phytoplankton, some of them responsible for algal blooms that are toxic to fish.[3]

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