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biosphere > organism > animal > invertebrate > protozoan

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protozoan  

Definition

  • A diverse phylum of eukaryotic microorganisms; the structure varies from a simple uninucleate protoplast to colonial forms, the body is either naked or covered by a test, locomotion is by means of pseudopodia or cilia or flagella, there is a tendency toward universal symmetry in floating species and radial symmetry in sessile types, and nutrition may be phagotrophic or autotrophic or saprozoic.

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http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/6759

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