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Sarcodia: Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Tubulina: Hartmannellidae

Saccamoeba
Frenzel, 1892; emend. Bovee, 1972

Family: Body monopodial; locomotion by slight forward bulging (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Genus: Limax amoebae with hyaline cap reduced to shallow crescent or absent in continuing locomotion, though always seen on initiation of pseudopodium; advance often with non-eruptive slight antero-lateral bulging; villous-bulb uroid with more or less rigid fine villi often present (Page, 1976).

Saccamoeba sp.
6 clips
120 μm
Kitayama park
Higashi-Murayama
Tokyo, 2004

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