Saccamoeba

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, x 400, x 640, Uruguay Nov. 1999, photo by Y. Tsukii
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Saccamoeba, Uruguay 1999, photo by Y. Tsukii


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