Catallacta

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Catallacta \Cat`al*lac"ta\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See
     {Catallactics}.] (Zool.)
     A division of Protozoa, of which {Magosph[ae]ra} 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.


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