Great Lakes Water Life Photo Gallery
Golden Algae
Division Chrysophyta
Lagynion spp.

Lagynion spp.

Woods Hole

Profile: rhizopodal (amoeboid) cells in a flask or bottle shaped lorica. usually attached (often epiphytes on filamentous algae).

at least 7 US spp.

Great Lakes: L. ampullaceum, L. macrotrachelum, L. reductum, L. scherffelii, L. triangularis

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