Schizochytrium limacinum
| Schizochytrium limacinum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Bigyra |
| Class: | Labyrinthulomycetes |
| Order: | Thraustochytrida |
| Family: | Thraustochytriidae |
| Genus: | Schizochytrium |
| Species: | S. limacinum
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| Binomial name | |
| Schizochytrium limacinum D. Honda & Yokochi, 1998
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Schizochytrium limacinum is a species of thraustochytrids first isolated from a mangrove area in the western Pacific Ocean. It differs from other Schizochytrium species in its limaciform amoeboid cells, the size of its zoospores, and its assimilation profile of carbon sources.