Radiolaria is a phylum of single-celled marine protists that build intricate skeletons, usually made of silica, and extend fine needle-like pseudopods through the skeleton to capture food. Over long geological timescales the mineral skeletons of dead radiolarians accumulate on the ocean floor as a fine sediment called siliceous ooze.
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The Radiolaria, also called Radiozoa and informally called radiolarians, are unicellular eukaryotes of diameter 0.1-0.2 mm that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule dividing the cell into the inner and outer portions of endoplasm and ectoplasm.
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