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catallacta
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catallacta, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. . See Catallactics.].
A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphæra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies. [1913 Webster]
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