1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Protogenes (genus)

21713151911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 22 — Protogenes (genus)

PROTOGENES (E. Haeckel), a little-known genus of Foraminifera (q.v.), marine organisms, forming a naked flat disk with numerous long radiating pseudopodia: nucleus and contractile vacuole not seen, and reproduction unknown.