Foraminifera

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Translingual

Allogromia lagenoides, one of the Foraminifera

Proper noun

Foraminifera

  1. The foraminifers, amoeboid single-cell eukaryotes characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things are used for catching food
    1. A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Retaria.
    2. A taxonomic infraphylum within the phylum Retaria.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI
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