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Sarcodia: Filosea: Aconchulinida: Vampyrellidae
Vampyrella lateritia
(Fresenius, 1856) Leidy, 1879
Syn.: V. spirogyrae Cienkowski, 1863
Genus: Algophorous parasites; cytoplasm reddish; pseudopodia tapering, flexible
(Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Heliozoa-like; endoplasm vacuolated or granulated, with carotin granules;
numerous vesicular nuclei and contractile vacuoles; multinucleate cysts, sometimes with stalk;
50-700 μm in diameter (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
Vampyrella lateritia,
tape No. 0085, time code 0000,
with long pseudopodia (like axopodia), cell body rounded up to μm diam., filopods up to μm long,
x 400, x 640, Kurome river, Asaka city, Saitama Pref., Japan, December 1998 by Y. Tsukii
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