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Diatom vs Epitheca - What's the difference?

diatom | epitheca |

As nouns the difference between diatom and epitheca

is that diatom is a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class class: Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta, formerly all included in the order order: Diatomaceae, now obsolete while epitheca is the upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.

diatom

English

(wikipedia diatom)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class , now obsolete.

    • Derived terms

    * diatomaceous * diatomite

    epitheca

    English

    Noun

    (epithecae)
  • (microbiology, planktology) The upper half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
  • *
    • The frustule's structure is usually composed of two overlapping sections, known as valves. The upper valve is termed the epitheca and is slightly larger and overlaps the lower valve, the hypotheca.
  • * ucl.ac.uk diatom webpage
    • The diatom frustule is often likened to a pill-box ... with an epitheca (larger upper valve), and a hypotheca (smaller lower valve).

    Coordinate terms

    * hypotheca

    Derived terms

    * epithecal

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