Thioploca araucae

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Thioploca araucae
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T. araucae
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Thioploca araucae
Maier and Gallardo 1984

Thioploca araucae is a marine thioploca from the benthos of the Chilean continental shelf. It is a colonial, multicellular, gliding trichomes of similar diameter enclosed by a shared sheath. It possesses cellular sulfur inclusions located in a thin peripheral cytoplasm surrounding a large, central vacuole. It is a motile organism through gliding. The trichome diameters of Thioploca araucae range from 30 to 43 μm.[1]

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  1. ^ Maier, S.; Gallardo, V. A. (1984). "Thioploca araucae sp. nov. and Thioploca chileae sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 34 (4): 414–418. doi:10.1099/00207713-34-4-414. ISSN 0020-7713.

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