Assulina muscorum
Assulina muscorum, 54 µm, stacked image

Genus Assulina Greef, 1888

Diagnosis: Shell usually brown, ovoid, compressed, biconvex in cross-section, with overlapping elliptical scales; aperture narrow oval, more or less crenulate with organic margin; nucleus vesicular, filopodia.

 

Assulina
Assulina – after Lüftenegger et al, 1988
Ferry Siemensma, created March 3, 2019; last modified June 12, 2026
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