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<\/a>Elphidium – a shelled protozoan<\/p><\/div>\n
Scientific Name: Elphidium sp.<\/em><\/p>\n Description: Importance: Elphidium – a shelled protozoan Scientific Name: Elphidium sp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,635],"tags":[686,684,685,687],"yst_prominent_words":[1707,2960,2957,2959,1465,2962,2963,2964,2961,2958,2549,2624],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-protozoans","tag-ooze","tag-elphidium","tag-elphidium-sp","tag-pseudopodia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe all know snails and other molluscs to have shells. But do you know that some protozoans also have shells? They are called foraminiferans. Elphidium sp.(=Polystomella sp.) is a genus of free-living marine foraminiferan. They have multi-chambered perforated shells which are spirally arranged. They extend long thread-like pseudopodia through those pores. For your information, pseudopodia (singular-pseudopodium) are the organs of locomotion for many protozoans.<\/p>\n
\nwhen they die, their shells fall on the ocean floor like a steady rain and contribute to the formation of bottom sediments, called ‘ooze’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"