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Chaetospira sp.

Species name: Chaetospira sp.

Bureau Swerage, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

The size of Chaetospira is 25-50 μm in length. The body is enveloped in a flask-like lorica attached to the flocs. They have the bristles in the front end of the body with three cirri rows. Their end of the body is elongated. The food source are Diatoms or smallMastigomycetes.

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(2016.12.21)

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