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Species: | Schizochytrium limacinum Honda et al. 1998
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Schizochytrium limacinum is a species of thraustochytrids first isolated from a mangrove area in the western Pacific Ocean. It differs from other Schizochytrium species in its limaciform amoeboid cells, the size of its zoospores, and its assimilation profile of carbon sources.[1]