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Name derivation:

"Double chamber" - Double Diploos chamber -theke (Greek)

Classification:

Order Acanthoecida, Family Acanthoecidae. 

Alternatively Class Zoomastigophorea, Order Choanoflagellida, Family Salpingoecidae

 

Morphology:

Similar genera:

Habitat:

Marine plankton

 

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