Difflugia

[ dih-floo-jee-uh ]

noun

1. a genus of ameboid protozoans that construct a shell of cemented sand grains.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Difflugia¹

< New Latin (1816), equivalent to Latin difflu ( ere ) to flow away ( diffluent ) + -g- (unexplained) + -ia -ia

Example Sentences

Despite their fragility, a collection of 130-year-old models of sea creatures is to go on display after decades in store at the , including the two amoebae, Difflugia pyriformis, above.

From The Guardian

When Difflugia divides, part of the protoplasm protrudes from the opening and a new shell is secreted about this mass which becomes a daughter individual.

From Project Gutenberg

If this is correct, and if in the protozoa the chromatin has the same influence that it seems to have in higher animals, the mode of reproduction in Difflugia would be expected to give little more than random sampling of the germ plasm.

From Project Gutenberg

The number of species of Cothurnia has become so great that the difficulty in placing forms is almost sufficient to discourage the systematist; as Bütschli well remarks, the variations in the theca have been made the basis of new species so many times that the genus is almost as confused as Difflugia among the rhizopods or Campanularia among the hydroids.

From Project Gutenberg

He relates that the Difflugia ampula, a creature occupying a tiny shell formed of minute particles of sand, has a long projection of its substance, like a feeler or tendril, with which it searches on the bottom of the sea for sandy material with which to build the shell or outer covering for its offspring, which are born by division from the parent body.

From Project Gutenberg