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Definition of Heliozoa
1. Noun. Mostly freshwater protozoa.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Actinopoda, Subclass Actinopoda
Member holonyms: Heliozoan
Definition of Heliozoa
1. n. pl. An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
Medical Definition of Heliozoa
1. Order Heliozoida. A group of amoeboid protozoa. They are generally free floating, spherical cells with many straight, slender microtubule supported pseudopods radiating from the cell body like a sunburst. These modified pseudopods are termed axopodia. Genera include Actinophrys and Echinosphaerium. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heliozoa
Literary usage of Heliozoa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"the simple heliozoa which are among the commonest inhabitants of fresh water,
furnishing the best illustrations of the essential characters of the type. ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"heliozoa without a skeleton (sometimes temporarily invested by a gelatinous ...
heliozoa with skeleton of loosely arranged isolated silicious spicules ..."
3. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"The heliozoa owe their name to the shape of the body, with the pseudopodia arranged
like rays. In each pseudopodium is a firm axial thread, forming a cv Na ..."
4. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The first stage of the life-history, or the fission-product is sometimes flagellate.
There are six classes, the heliozoa, Radiolaria, Foraminifera, ..."
5. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1877)
"RECENT MEMOIRS ON FRESHWATER RHIZOPODA. RÉSUMÉ of RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS to our
KNOWLEDGE of " FRESHWATER RHIZOPODA." Part III. heliozoa ..."
6. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"heliozoa. Naked, or with a chitinous or simple radial siliceous skeleton ; the
pseudopodia are filamentous, and are frequently supported ..."
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