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Schizochytrium limacinum

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Superphylum
  
Heterokonta

Order
  
Labyrinthulales

Genus
  
Schizochytrium

Class
  
Labyrinthulomycetes

Family
  
Thraustochytriaceae

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Schizochytrium, Aurantiochytrium, Labyrinthulomycetes, Crypthecodinium cohnii, Labyrinthula

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.

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Schizochytrium limacinum Wikipedia