Rhaphidozoum
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Rhizaria |
| Phylum: | Retaria |
| Class: | Polycystinea |
| Order: | Nassellaria |
| Family: | Collozoidae |
| Subfamily: | Sphaerozoidae |
| Genus: | |
| Species | |
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Rhaphidozoum is a radiolarian genus reported in the subfamily Sphaerozoidae.[1][2] The genus contains bioluminescent species.[1] It is a genus of colonial radiolarians (as opposed to solitary).[3]
Species
The following species are recognized:[2]
- Rhaphidozoum pandora Haeckel, 1887
References
- ^ a b Herring, Peter J. (1987). "Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 1 (3): 147–163. doi:10.1002/bio.1170010303. PMID 3503524.
- ^ a b "Rhaphidozoum". WoRMS. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
- ^ Latz, Michael I.; Frank, Tamara M.; Case, James F.; Swift, Elijah; Bidigare, Robert R. (1987). "Bioluminescence of colonial radiolaria in the western Sargasso Sea". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 109 (1): 25–38. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(87)90183-3. ISSN 0022-0981.