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DIVISION
Dinoflagellata

Citation: Dinoflagellata (Bütschli 1885) Fensome et al. 1993b.

Diagnosis: Organisms in which the motile stage has two flagella, one ribbon-like with multiple waves, which beats to the cell's left, the other beating towards the posterior, with only one or a few waves. Mitosis is closed, with an extranuclear mitotic spindle.


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