Dictyocha
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| Dictyocha | |
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| D. speculum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Division: | Ochrophyta |
| Class: | Dictyochophyceae |
| Order: | Dictyochales |
| Family: | Dictyochaceae |
| Genus: | Dictyocha Ehrenberg, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Dictyocha speculum Ehrenberg, 1837 | |
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Dictyocha is a genus of silicoflagellates, marine photosynthetic unicellular protists that take the form of either flagellates or axopodial amoebae. Described by Ehrenberg in 1837, Dictyocha contains many important species of the marine phytoplankton, some of them responsible for algal blooms that are toxic to fish.[3]